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Liggett moving plant 

Liggett Group, the last remaining manufacturer of cigarettes in the town tobacco built, said Friday that it will move its tobacco production operation to a modern plant in Mebane. More than 200 of the 300 employees working in Liggett's eight-building campus will be asked to transfer to the new plant.

Liggett said three weeks ago that it was looking at the Mebane plant because it couldn't continue to produce cigarettes profitably in the decades-old campus of brick buildings along West Main Street downtown.

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So they've come from thousands and thousands of employees down to this. . . You never dreamed that this would happen. You always thought these businesses would be here.
NC state Sen. Jeannie Lucas, a Durham native whose parents worked for Liggett, which is moving its manufacturing from Durham to a smaller plant in Mebane. Quoted in <i>Liggett moving plant</i>