Wake Forest University Health Science said yesterday in a legal notice that it plans to convert 1.27 acres in downtown Winston-Salem from a brownfields property into a biotechnology research and office site.
The request filed with the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources also lists BRF-A1a LLC as a participant in the project.
Bonnie Davis, a spokesman for Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, said that the proposed project would reuse buildings left vacant years ago as part of a reorganization by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., including the landmark Bailey Power Plant and its signature smokestack.
BRF is listed as a real-estate holding company in an incorporation filing with the N.C. secretary of state. Managers of BRF are Richard Dean, the president emeritus of Wake Forest University Health Sciences; Doug Edgeton, the president of Piedmont Triad Research Park; and Terry Hales Jr.
The brownfields site at 415 E. Third St. was used most recently by Camel City Dry Cleaners. The request for a brownfields agreement lists soil and groundwater contamination from past activity at the site.
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