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♦ Fort Collins Coloradoan
Business editor. Bob Mook, 224-7735 E-mail: Busir
Newspaper breaks ground on new b
By Coloradoan staff
The Coloradoan will be
spreading out from its location at
1212 Riverside Ave. to more spa-
cious accommodations next door.
On Wednesday, the newspa-
per will break ground on a two-
story, 37,255-square-foot office
building that will roughly double
the size of its current building.
"This is a customer -friendly
layout that's conducive to doing
business;" said Jerry Quinn, Col-
oradoan production director and
manager of the $6.7 million proj-
ect.
Although the old site will con-
tinue to provide a home for the
publication's printing operations,
Quinn said the building has
grown crowded and confined in
the past 25 years.
A new structure also will give
the company room to grow, he
said. The project is scheduled for
completion by July 2005.
Along with more spacious ac-
commodations for the Col-
oradoan's 230 employees, the
building will feature a community
FUTURE LOOK: An artist's rendering depicts what the new Col-
oradoan office building will look like when completed. The newspa-
room with expanded seating ca- company that owns the Col-
pacity and state-of-the-art audio- oradoan, the Windsor Beacon,
visual equipment. USA Today and Denver's NBC af-
Quinn said the room will be filiate KLJSA 9News, is financing
available for community meet- the project.
ings during and after the publica- 'We've been working on this
tion's operating hours. Among for more than eight years, and I
other amenities, the building fea- am delighted to see the vision will
tures a fitness room, where Col- become a reality;' said Dorothy
oradoan employees can exercise Bland, Coloradoan publisher. She
during breaks. noted that the Coloradoan has
Gannett Co. Inc., the McLean, been a part of Fort Collins, under
Va.-based media and printing various names, since 1873.
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per breaks ground on the 37,255-square-foot building Wednesday,
and the project is scheduled for completion in July 2005.
"Building a new office demon-
strates Gannett's continuing
commitment to grow with our
employees and the community:
she said.
The first floor of the new
building will house the publica-
tion's advertising, pre -press, cir-
culation, marketing and human
resources departments. Ile sec-
ond floor provides space for the
Coloradoan's news, accounting
and technology departments, as
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well as 9News' Northern Col-
orado Bureau. The publisher's of-
fice and a fitness room also will
occupy the floor.
The Coloradoan's existing
building will continue to house a
pressroom, where USA Today,
the Windsor Beacon and other
commercial publications are
printed.
George Brelig, principal and
president of RB+B Architects
Inc, the Fort Collins firm that de-