Piedmont Triad Research Park (PTRP), located in downtown Winston Salem is a highly interactive, master-planned innovation community developed to support life science and information technology research and development. The PTRP is the third largest research park in the state behind Research Triangle Park and Charlotte's University Research Park. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Winston-Salem is a city located in Forsyth County, North Carolina. ... Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology is the science of life (from the Greek words bios = life and logos = word). ... Information technology (IT, also known as Information and Communication(s) Technology (ICT) and Infocomm, especially in Asia) is a broad subject concerned with technology and other aspects of managing and processing information, especially in large organizations. ... Research is often described as an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising facts. ... Research Triangle Park (RTP) is the largest research park in the world, and it is located near Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill, in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina. ...

Future plans call for an expansion of the park southward to Salem Creek. The project will be centered around a new biomedical facility for Wake Forest University's Health Sciences department and will also proximate to Wake Forest University Babtist Medical Center, Winston-Salem State University, Salem College, Salem Academy and the North Carolina School of the Arts. This expansion would make the park's boundaries: Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, US 52, Salem Avenue, and Salem Creek. Wake Forest University is a private university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known for its programs in the liberal arts. ... Winston-Salem State University is a four-year is a public, coeducational, research university located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. ... Salem College is a small, womens liberal arts college located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. ... An arts conservatory of international renown, the North Carolina School of the Arts was the first state-supported, residential school of its kind in the nation. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. ... United States Highway 52 is an unusual United States highway. ...

The "Master Plan" for the PTRP organizes the park into three districts:

• North - Research and Mixed-use District
• Central - Biomedical Campus District
• South - Academic and Research District

Facilities developed within all three districts will support a variety of technology-driven commercial and educational enterprises with development responding to topography rather than concealing it. There are a number of historic and architecturally significant buildings throughout the research park area that will be retained because of their contribution to the character and image of the park as well as their reuse potential. Other buildings that have economic value and that contain uses that are consistent with the long-term vision for the Park will also be retained.

References

• PTRP Master Plan