Consortium Members

• Town Of Oak Ridge• North Carolina Department of

Transportation• YMCA of Northwest North Carolina• Center for New North Carolinians• Davidson County Planning Department• North Carolina Department of

Environment and Natural Resources• Town of Kernersville• Rockingham County Planning Department• Housing Authority of Winston-Salem• e-NC Authority• North Carolina Department of Commerce• North Carolina Center for Global Logistics• Piedmont Triad Rural Planning

Organization• Northwest Piedmont Rural Planning

Organization• Winston-Salem State University• City of Burlington• City of Greensboro

• Town of Walnut Cove• Winston-Salem Urban Area MPO• City-County Planning Board (Winston-Salem/Forsyth County)• Forsyth Futures• Forsyth County• Southwest High Point Renewal Project• City of Winston-Salem• Greensboro Urban Area MPO• City of High Point• Greensboro Housing Coalition• Center for Design Innovation• Town of Pleasant Garden• Town of Cooleemee• Piedmont Conservation Council• City of Lexington• Village of Clemmons• Transition Greensboro• City of Asheboro

Community

What is the project all about?

“We are proud of our region’s heritage – working together to create and build things of value. In the past we were linked together by the crops we grew, our land’s natural resources, and the commodities we produced with crops and resources through the manufacture of furniture, textiles and tobacco products. These efforts knitted us together as a regional community, connected our cities and towns – providing the means to raise our families and to proposer. The Piedmont Triad was the economic engine for the state, while Charlotte prospered as a financial center and Raleigh served as the seat of State government.

As a region of mill towns, large and small, we have struggled economically over the past several decades. Hundreds of plant closings and tens of thousands of job losses throughout our region have broken many of the ties that bound us together in times of prosperity.

We have now undertaken a hopeful process to re-connect and re-envision who we are and what we can become as a region. The connections will not be the same. The region is a different place and the challenges different. Please add your voice to the Piedmont Triad’s renaissance. Join in our regional conversation. Help us recapture the best of our past and present and to build a future of promise and prosperity for our children’s children.”

100,000+ jobs lost in the Piedmont Triad over the last several decades. The new economy requires a different strategy that focuses on Innovation – Design – Production and creating vibrant, livable communities.

Piedmont Triad residents spend an average of 58% their family income on housing and transportation. This is primarily due to the disconnect between location of housing and jobs.

Everyday 33% of Piedmont Triad commuters leave their county and go to another county to their job. 95% of all commuters do so by a single mode of travel, their car. Without choices we lose our freedom. Without being able to access educational and job opportunities our economy suffers. Without being able to walk or bike as we shop, recreate or attend cultural events our health suffers.

Economy

Environment