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Liggett Vector picks Morrisville 

Durham, which grew from a rural whistle-stop to one of the South's most industrialized cities on the success of cigarette manufacturers, is losing one of its last vestiges of the tobacco industry to Wake County.

Liggett Vector Brands, with executives at 1 Park Drive on the Durham side of Research Triangle Park, plans to move to Perimeter Park in Morrisville in October.

The marketing subsidiary of Miami-based Vector Group, which makes cigarette brands Liggett Select, Eve, Jade and the reduced-nicotine Quest in Mebane, agreed to lease 20,000 square feet at 3800 Paramount Parkway, Liggett Vector CEO Ron Bernstein said.

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