{"id":1956704,"date":"2025-08-12T20:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1956704"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:58:40","slug":"winston-salem-mulls-development-of-new-outdoor-music-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/winston-salem-mulls-development-of-new-outdoor-music-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston-Salem mulls development of new outdoor music venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Local business leaders are pitching a new 5,000-seat amphitheater in downtown Winston-Salem, but city officials aren\u2019t quite ready to sign off on it.<\/p>\n<p>Flow Automotive\u2019s Don Flow and Jim Brammer of Concert Stuff Group want to build the venue near the Benton Convention Center to attract bigger acts to Winston. And they\u2019d like the city to lease them vacant parkland to do it.<\/p>\n<p>At a committee meeting Monday, Council members suggested the plan was rushed. Mayor Pro Tem D.D. Adams said an amphitheater may not be the best use of the space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we have land that we can use for anything as a city entity, the Council needs to address whether we want to use it for housing, or whether we want to use it for economic development or other things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her point was echoed by Council Member Barbara Hanes Burke. Council Member Regina Ford Hall said while she was generally supportive, she did have concerns about noise pollution and traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The committee voted to send the proposal to the full Council for consideration, but Adams warned colleagues to expect pushback during the public comment period. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '3927319740668442',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wunc.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local business leaders are pitching a new 5,000-seat amphitheater in downtown Winston-Salem, but city officials aren\u2019t quite ready to sign off on it. Flow Automotive\u2019s Don Flow and Jim Brammer of Concert Stuff Group want to build the venue near the Benton Convention Center to attract bigger acts to Winston. And they\u2019d like the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1956705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Winston-Salem-mulls-development-of-new-outdoor-music-venue.com2Flegacy2F2024-042Fwinston20salem20city20hall.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}