Jersey Journal selling building and seeking new location in Hudson County

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal
December 06, 2012

The Jersey Journal is finalizing the sale of its Journal Square headquarters in Jersey City, the daily newspaper?s home for 87 years, and is in the process of finding a new location in Hudson County.

Publisher Kendrick Ross announced the news to staffers yesterday morning, saying the upcoming move will not have an impact on the day-to-day operations of the paper.

?This is positive news, as it will allow us to find space that is suitable to the needs of a 21st-century news organization,? Ross said. ?We will continue to be the No. 1 news source in Hudson County in print and online.?

Ross said the process of finding a new location for the newspaper?s offices could take up to eight months.

?We are committed to remaining in Hudson County,? Ross said.

The Jersey Journal has moved its home a number of times since it first printed as The Evening Journal on May 2, 1867. First housed in an Exchange Place office, the paper moved to a Greene Street location two years later, and then to 37 Montgomery St. in 1875.

The paper headed out of Downtown in 1911 to Bergen and Sip avenues and relocated again to its current home in 1925 after the city?s creation of Journal Square, which was named after the paper.

The paper?s headquarters, at 30 Journal Square, was designed by John T. Rowland, the legendary Mayor Frank Hague?s personal favorite architect, according to historian and Jersey Journal columnist John Gomez.

Rowland was also responsible for Dickinson, Lincoln and Snyder high schools, as well as the old Jersey City Medical Center.

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