Wake Forest Baptist to Build $50M Medical Education Facility in Wake Forest Innovation Quarter

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center plans to break ground on a new medical education facility for the Wake Forest School of Medicine. The $50 million project will be located in the former 60 series R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. complex in the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, an urban research and business park in Winston-Salem specializing in biotechnology, materials science and information technology. The 168,000-square-foot property is scheduled to open in July 2016. The building will be developed in partnership with Wake Forest Baptist’s Innovation Quarter partner, Wexford Science + Technology LLC, a BioMed Realty Company.