The document lists over 40 consortium members from across the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina that are working together on an initiative. It then provides context about the region's economic struggles in recent decades following the loss of hundreds of manufacturing plants and tens of thousands of jobs. The initiative aims to reconnect the region and reenvision its future by focusing on innovation, design, production and creating livable communities, in order to build a more prosperous future.

1. Consortium Members
• Town Of Oak Ridge • Town of Walnut Cove
• North Carolina Department of • Winston-Salem Urban Area MPO
Transportation • City-County Planning Board
• YMCA of Northwest North Carolina (Winston-Salem/Forsyth County)
• Center for New North Carolinians • Forsyth Futures
• Davidson County Planning Department • Forsyth County
• North Carolina Department of • Southwest High Point Renewal Project
Environment and Natural Resources • City of Winston-Salem
• Town of Kernersville • Greensboro Urban Area MPO
• Rockingham County Planning Department • City of High Point
• Housing Authority of Winston-Salem • Greensboro Housing Coalition
• e-NC Authority • Center for Design Innovation
• North Carolina Department of Commerce • Town of Pleasant Garden
• North Carolina Center for Global Logistics • Town of Cooleemee
• Piedmont Triad Rural Planning • Piedmont Conservation Council
Organization • City of Lexington
• Northwest Piedmont Rural Planning • Village of Clemmons
Organization • Transition Greensboro
• Winston-Salem State University • City of Asheboro
• City of Burlington
• City of Greensboro

2. Community

31. 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.”

32. 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.

33. Economy

47. Environment