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Downtown projects move forward in Winston-Salem as developers look past the COVID-19 pandemic


March 20 was a day that Simon Burgess will remember: It was the first night since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic here that all the rooms in the Hotel Indigo downtown were booked.
“The restaurant has been doing really well,” he added. “It is still tough, but we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Burgess is managing director of Mayfair Street Partners, which renovated the old Pepper Building as the Hotel Indigo in 2018 and had big hotel plans for nearby Merschel Park. The restaurant in the hotel is the Sir Winston.
Now, Burgess is feeling optimistic about development in downtown Winston-Salem, although he’ll be building apartments instead of hotel rooms to overlook Merschel Park at the south end of Trade Street downtown. ....

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