Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 00:48:44 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Trib agrees to vacate printing plant References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 17:58:20 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 48 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-v81o05QYQuHDCr01FY2Fq8r3er8QsEpvxgA0Z2eoy1TJXnTk3dF4qE9FmU7fxFMjo3bwhiKMte1CgyN!lkL/jJ6DEwYrYdwqPJaErndQqNYO4QoXmDP5942aVxjGhWXXSD2uu7Q2dQ/1fHIV8vdkRvoUXHqD!DOA= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3292 In article , "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > BTR1701 wrote: > >In article , > > "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > > > >> Adam H. Kerman wrote: > >> > >> >In the continuing humilitation of a once fine but now decrepit > >> >newspaper, Trib has agreed to vacate Freedom Center on the near > >> >northwest side of the city by a year from July. The modern printing > >> >plant was built in 1981, moving all production out of Tribune Tower. > >> >This allowed them to build studios for WGN radio and a tv studio that > >> >was used for a short while. > >> > >> >Tribune Tower is irrelevant to the newspaper; it's being turned into > >> >housing. > >> > >> >I don't see how that's enough time to site and build a new plant, so my > >> >guess is they're going to the vacant printing plant in Milwaukee which > >> >Alden Capital already owns. > >> > >> >Bally's was supposed to build and equip a replacement printing plant but > >> >they made a cash settlement instead. > >> > >> >The newspaper was stripped of all its land and other assets years ago. > >> > >> >https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-tribune-ballys-freedom-cent > >> >er-move-20230505-nf4sbgbsi5d3jccewdnx4wc4sa-story.html > >> > >> The final editions have been printed at Freedom Center as of Sunday, May > >> 19, 2024. These were Sunday editions of Trib itself, Chicago Sun-Times, > >> and the midwest edition of the New York Times. > > > >Several years ago, the L.A. Times sold off its historic downtown > >building and moved out to El Segundo into a small office block. (Looks a > >lot like the Alaska strip mall Hilary Swank worked in on ALASKA DAILY.) > > With that gorgeous view of mountains from all four sides of the interior > storefront? Well, the L.A. Times isn't a TARDIS, which the Alaska Daily clearly was. > >The people who can't stand the relentless firehose of 'progressive' > >propaganda that's currently the Times' brand disdainfully refer to them > >now as the El Segundo Times, implying that they're no different than any > >of the other beach city coupon circulars.