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===Reynolds Boulevard=== The first R. J. Reynolds buildings on present-day Reynolds Boulevard (formerly 33rd Street<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Forsyth County Government, Register of Deeds|title=Deed to 1100 Reynolds Blvd.|access-date=October 25, 2021|url=https://forsythdeeds.com/view_image.php?file=re/001595/001683.tif&type=pdf}}</ref>) were the [[R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Buildings 2-1 and 2-2|three-story leaf buildings]], the 2-1 building built in 1937 and the 2-2 building in 1955. These were named to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in October 2017, and in October 2019 C.A. Harrison Cos. LLC, developer of Plant 64, announced the buildings would be renovated for loft apartments.<ref name=Leaf>{{cite news|url=https://www.journalnow.com/business/high-end-apartments-restaurant-and-retail-space--room-hotel/article_da57de02-b939-5f76-887f-7542df79e1bc.html|title=High-end apartments, restaurant and retail space, 125-room hotel planned for Whitaker Park |last=Craver|first=Richard|work=Winston Salem Journal|date=2019-10-10|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> Built in 1961 at a cost of $32 million ($271 million in 2023 dollars),<ref name=Purple/> the Whitaker Park plant had 790,300 square feet of manufacturing space and was considered "the world's largest and most modern cigarette-manufacturing plant".<ref name=Whitaker>{{cite news|title=Iconic Whitaker Park donated to nonprofit|last=Craver|first=Richard|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=2015-01-08|page=A1}}</ref> It was announced in May 2010 that cigarette manufacturing would cease at Whitaker Park; by mid-2011, this had been done. Manufacturing formerly performed at the Whitaker Park plant was consolidated in the more-modern Tobaccoville plant. On January 7, 2015, Reynolds announced that Whitaker Park was being donated to Whitaker Park Development Authority Inc., started in April 2011 by Winston-Salem Business Inc., the Winston-Salem Alliance and [[Wake Forest University]].<ref name=Whitaker /> The 120-acre site and 13 buildings were officially transferred in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://journalnow.com/news/local/business/real-estate/wake-forest-reynolds-whitaker-park/article_5d3e9482-df2c-11ef-b717-db8c19a96363.html|title=Wake Forest expands Whitaker Park presence for new home of nanotechnology center|last=Craver|first=Richard|work=Winston Salem Journal|date=2025-01-30|access-date=2025-01-31}}</ref> In 2019 Cook Medical announced it would buy the 850,000-square-foot 601-1 building with plans to move its 650 employees there by 2022. As of October 2019, [[Hanesbrands]] had taken over space in the 426,800-square-foot 601-11 building as a distribution center, and Nature's Value bought that building in August 2021.<ref name=Leaf/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://journalnow.com/business/local/whitaker-park-revitalization-advances-with-plans-for-two-major-facilities/article_c7982796-9a4a-11ec-8093-b7c5373a1208.html|title=Whitaker Park revitalization advances with plans for two major facilities|last=Craver|first=Richard|work=Winston Salem Journal|date=2022-03-03|access-date=2022-03-03}}</ref> On August 23, 2023, Cook Medical, which paid $4 million for its space in Whitaker Park in 2021, announced it would sell because the [[remote work]] trend meant it no longer needed the space. Purple Crow chief executive and president Dan Calhoun confirmed his company had a contract to buy the property. Purple Crow, which had already asked for incentives from the city, pledged in its incentive request to spend $50 million and create 274 jobs, nearly doubling its area work force.<ref name=Purple>{{cite news|url=https://journalnow.com/news/local/major-whitaker-park-change-cook-medical-bowing-out-purple-crow-stepping-in/article_1e60c9ce-3ba4-11ee-8607-b7b60a8028b2.html|title=Major Whitaker Park change: Cook Medical bowing out, Purple Crow stepping in|last=Craver|first=Richard|work=Winston Salem Journal|date=2023-08-23}}</ref> 18 buildings and 100 acres in the area continue to be used for tobacco processing and warehousing.<ref name=Purple/>
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