Years of growth here have created not just an infrastructure capable of supporting the 218% population boom brought on by the past two decades, but have seen the strategic evolution of a larger culture that is fueling entrepreneurial opportunity.

The Loading Dock in Raleigh has been bringing together thought leaders and entrepreneurs since its founding in 2016. It will soon be launching another campus in the historic district of downtown Wake Forest.

With an estimated annual economic impact of $178 million in Wake County (including $101 million in Wake Forest alone), this development in Wake Forest’s nearly 150-year-old downtown stands to be catalytic in both propelling the community’s start-up culture forward and in solidifying the town in the Triangle region’s booming entrepreneurial scene.