VOL. 132 | NO. 121 | Monday, June 19, 2017

The Commercial Appeal building and site at 495 Union Avenue is for sale, the newspaper announced Monday, June 19, on its website.

Mike Jung, president of the newspaper, told employees of the newspaper at a Monday morning meeting that the property goes on the market in two to three weeks. That includes a set of parking lots and other parcels of land between the Union Avenue frontage and Jessamine Avenue.

The company is being represented in the listing by CBRE.

The Commercial Appeal moved into the building on Union in 1977, which was built specifically for the newspaper. It replaced an old building that had previously been a Ford motor company assembly plant on what is now the front lawn of the building.

Two months ago, the newspaper moved the printing of the daily to Jackson, Tennessee where Gannett, the company that owns The Commercial Appeal, also has a newspaper.

With that change, the Commercial Appeal no longer needed such a large footprint for a press that is three stories tall and a major feature of the operating plant.