It remained empty after the bank left until Selp-Help Ventures Fund bought the building in 2000 to convert to office space.
[3] Peoples Bancorp had $1.26 billion in assets when the bank announced its merger in 1990.
[4] Archie W. McLean served as the president and chief executive of Planters from 1950 until 1971, when he became chairman.
"[4] The merged banking company had $2.6 billion in assets and 116 branches and was the state's seventh-largest.
Centura Bank had 102 branches; the holding company also owned Watauga Savings and Loan Association, Inc. in Boone, North Carolina and Mid-South Bank and Trust Company in Sanford, North Carolina.
Planters was "old money" with "top down" decision making, while Peoples was "the town's common folk".
Though Futrell led Centura, the merged bank had the Peoples culture.
[3] Centura used the former Planters headquarters, while the Poyner & Spruill law firm took over the 25-year-old 42,000-square-foot former Peoples building in 1991.
The bank's name would change to RBC Centura, and the headquarters would remain in Rocky Mount.