Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Trib agrees to vacate printing plant Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 00:38:38 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 02:38:38 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cf57a54d4f325274924ced8abce80213"; logging-data="276504"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19e9SYt3lYuOMO3hNjpDOoMfLTLRsnIiHs=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z07/xQk0yathH1TbpA8kL3QMkHg= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2893 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-center- >> >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? >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.