Cook Medical completes agreement for Whitaker Park facility

Cook Medical says it completed its agreement with Whitaker Park Development Authority Inc. last week to buy a vacant R.J. Reynolds building in the redeveloped Winston-Salem business park.

The company will convert the 850,000-square-foot former cigarette manufacturing facility into a “world-class” medical device manufacturing facility this year, the company said.

Cook expects to add as many as 50 new jobs over the next decade.

In October 2018, Cook Medical’s vice president of technology acquisition…