Changes to Tribune Printing plant area move along

[cnwnorthline]

Just an update about the plan to redevelop the Tribune printing plant area:

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2018/10/18/you-get-a-skyscraper-and-you-get-a-skyscraper/?fbclid=IwAR22O20u6Zvb0NC0ywSS2AVDyUvx6Dd6YJJOuQIDHOs7NRs_PFSp0sh7sDo

Get pictures while you can! 

[TBurke]

Just an update about the plan to redevelop the Tribune printing plant area:

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2018/10/18/you-get-a-skyscraper-and-you-get-a-skyscraper/?fbclid=IwAR22O20u6Zvb0NC0ywSS2AVDyUvx6Dd6YJJOuQIDHOs7NRs_PFSp0sh7sDo

Get pictures while you can!

I thought the plan was to sell the land north of Chicago Avenue but keeping the Freedom Center open south of Chicago Avenue.  Tribune Publishing moved a number of staff from Tribune Tower into the Freedom Center facility as they vacated Tribune Tower.

[TBurke]

Looks like Tribune Publishing is moving ahead with plans to sell the Freedom Center printing press site.  That will create a dilemma for not just the print edition of the Tribune but also the other newspapers it prints there under contract like the Sun-Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-tribune-media-river-district-sale-20190215-story.html

The only other place with the capacity to take it over would be the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's relatively new and very underutilized printing press in West Milwaukee.  And that would create potential delays in morning deliveries.  The South Bend Tribune shut down its printing press and outsourced it to a newspaper group in the Grand Rapids area but it has experienced delivery issues as a result of the distance.

The Daily Herald printing press in the Roselle/Schaumburg area off I-390 is too small.