the Columbian

Publisher Scott Campbell tells GlobeSt.com that the newspaper's 360 employees are currently housed in an older building about one block away at 701 W. Eighth St. The building started out as a 23,000-sf structure and over the past 50 years has been expanded to an inefficient 118,000 sf. "It's mostly tacked-onto-the-backside type space," he says. "The ad department is in three different rooms and the circulation department is in six different rooms."

When the new building is complete, Campbell says newspaper operations will occupy about 60,000 sf on floors one through four, while the production department will stay behind in about 50,000 sf. The top two floors of the new building initially will be made available for lease but eventually will probably be taken over by the newspaper, Campbell says.

"In order to be appropriate for the surrounding environment, the building needed to be bigger than our immediate needs," he says. When asked what kind of term he'd be willing to give a tenant, Campbell said, "We'll be more than happy to sign five-year leases." With regard to a leasing agent, Campbell says that's something he will concern himself with "in a few months."