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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Cigar Factory is located at 701 East Bay Street, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. It is significant as a largely intact example of a late nineteenth century industrial plant built in the Victorian commercial style. Also important for its contributions to Charleston’s economy from post-Reconstruction into the 1970s.Work began in 1881, and the building was completed in 1882 for use as a textile factory. The factory was designed by A.D. Lockwood of Providence, Rhode Island and began operations in December 1882 as the Cotton Mill of Charleston. It is better known as the Cigar Factory, a name it acquired after The American Cigar Company purchased the property in 1912; the cigar factory remained in operation until 1973. During the 1930s, the factory was the largest private employer in Charleston with about 1400 workers generating more than 400,000 cigars daily.In the 1940s, the cigar factory was the site of a major strike by black workers. During the strike, worker Lucille Simmons, a choir member at Jerusalem Baptist Church, began singing the turn-of-the-20th-century gospel hymn, "I'll Overcome Some Day." The words of the song were altered while being sung. That instance marked the first singing of what would evolve into the popular civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome."The main building is five stories of brick in common bond with a flat metal roof, and central six-story brick water tower, which also houses an elevator. Immediately adjacent to the water tower is a four-story masonry addition without windows, which was part of the cooling and dehumidifying system added during the Cigar Factory period (1912-1973). The property also includes a ca. 1885 two-story brick addition, a two-story brick office building used originally as the picker house, two two-story brick engine houses, and a one-story brick boiler house. The boiler house also has an associated five-story brick chimney. It was added to the National Register on November 25, 1980.In April 2005, Jupiter Realty Corp. purchased the 210,000 square foot Cigar Factory for $14.7 million in the belief that the newly finished Ravenel Bridge would increase development in the upper peninsula. At the time, Johnson & Wales University was the main tenant, but the school was closing in June 2006 to move to Charlotte, North Carolina. In June 2007, the building was resold to the Simpson Organization, Inc., an Atlanta development company for about $20 million. The Simpson Organization planned to develop the property into stores and condos.When the real estate market crashed, funding for the $75 million project ended. Funding came from Silverton Bank of Atlanta, which agreed to lend the Simpson Organization, Inc. $37 million, but federal regulators took over the bank in May 2009 and soon stopped providing funding under the terms of the loan's agreement. Half of the Simpson Organization's construction loan had been paid out. Payments to the Cigar Factory developer stopped in August 2009, prompting it to fund $14 million on its own while trying to negotiate with banking regulators. Buyers had signed contracts to purchase about 20% of the Cigar Factory's units, which ranged from around $380,000 to $1.6 million.. }

• Cigar_Factory abstract "The Cigar Factory is located at 701 East Bay Street, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. It is significant as a largely intact example of a late nineteenth century industrial plant built in the Victorian commercial style. Also important for its contributions to Charleston’s economy from post-Reconstruction into the 1970s.Work began in 1881, and the building was completed in 1882 for use as a textile factory. The factory was designed by A.D. Lockwood of Providence, Rhode Island and began operations in December 1882 as the Cotton Mill of Charleston. It is better known as the Cigar Factory, a name it acquired after The American Cigar Company purchased the property in 1912; the cigar factory remained in operation until 1973. During the 1930s, the factory was the largest private employer in Charleston with about 1400 workers generating more than 400,000 cigars daily.In the 1940s, the cigar factory was the site of a major strike by black workers. During the strike, worker Lucille Simmons, a choir member at Jerusalem Baptist Church, began singing the turn-of-the-20th-century gospel hymn, "I'll Overcome Some Day." The words of the song were altered while being sung. That instance marked the first singing of what would evolve into the popular civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome."The main building is five stories of brick in common bond with a flat metal roof, and central six-story brick water tower, which also houses an elevator. Immediately adjacent to the water tower is a four-story masonry addition without windows, which was part of the cooling and dehumidifying system added during the Cigar Factory period (1912-1973). The property also includes a ca. 1885 two-story brick addition, a two-story brick office building used originally as the picker house, two two-story brick engine houses, and a one-story brick boiler house. The boiler house also has an associated five-story brick chimney. It was added to the National Register on November 25, 1980.In April 2005, Jupiter Realty Corp. purchased the 210,000 square foot Cigar Factory for $14.7 million in the belief that the newly finished Ravenel Bridge would increase development in the upper peninsula. At the time, Johnson & Wales University was the main tenant, but the school was closing in June 2006 to move to Charlotte, North Carolina. In June 2007, the building was resold to the Simpson Organization, Inc., an Atlanta development company for about $20 million. The Simpson Organization planned to develop the property into stores and condos.When the real estate market crashed, funding for the $75 million project ended. Funding came from Silverton Bank of Atlanta, which agreed to lend the Simpson Organization, Inc. $37 million, but federal regulators took over the bank in May 2009 and soon stopped providing funding under the terms of the loan's agreement. Half of the Simpson Organization's construction loan had been paid out. Payments to the Cigar Factory developer stopped in August 2009, prompting it to fund $14 million on its own while trying to negotiate with banking regulators. Buyers had signed contracts to purchase about 20% of the Cigar Factory's units, which ranged from around $380,000 to $1.6 million.".