{"id":1995476,"date":"2025-09-03T21:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1995476"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:15:40","slug":"winston-salem-city-council-greenlights-new-downtown-music-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/winston-salem-city-council-greenlights-new-downtown-music-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston-Salem City Council greenlights new downtown music venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Winston-Salem City Council is moving forward with plans for a new outdoor music venue near the Benton Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, council members voted 6\u20132 to lease city-owned land to developers for just $1 a month, clearing the way for a 5,000-seat amphitheater downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents voiced concerns about how the project could affect quality of life in the surrounding neighborhood. Councilmember Robert Clark pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people in this town are affected by traffic or noise,\u201d Clark said. \u201cIt is the price we pay to live in this community with all the benefits we get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To comply with city noise ordinances, concerts will be required to end by 11 p.m. Developers plan to meet this week with residents of Crystal Towers, a public housing development across from the proposed site, to discuss their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The venue could open as soon as next spring.<\/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>The Winston-Salem City Council is moving forward with plans for a new outdoor music venue near the Benton Convention Center. On Tuesday, council members voted 6\u20132 to lease city-owned land to developers for just $1 a month, clearing the way for a 5,000-seat amphitheater downtown. Some residents voiced concerns about how the project could affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1995477,"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-1995476","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\/09\/Winston-Salem-City-Council-greenlights-new-downtown-music-venue.com2F712F8e2F977eecfe48f1913553bd81cdb72c2Fdowntow.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995476","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=1995476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}