By: E&P Staff The Advocate, in Baton Rouge, La., reported Saturday, Oct. 23, that its owner, Capital City Press, plans to locate its new, 120,000-square-foot production and distribution plant on a 12.8-acre site near Interstate 10.
The proposed Siegen Lane site is less than a mile from the existing production plant and the building that will become the newspaper's new headquarters next spring. (See "Capital City's Capital Projects," in E&P's November issue.)
The company is slated to ask the city's zoning commission Monday, for a zoning change. The Advocate reported that the commission has recommended changing the site's designation from heavy commercial use to light industrial use. The Metro Council is to take up the rezoning on Nov. 17.
The site will be purchased after it is rezoned, according to Publisher Douglas Manship Jr., who did not disclose the purchase price. The Advocate reported that the site also will have a 70,000-square-foot run-off retention pond, and that two acres behind the plant will remain undeveloped.
An initial redesign of the paper appears today. Further modification is expected when new printing equipment is taken into production in mid-2006.
In the meantime, administrative, editorial, and advertising offices will move next summer to a six-story, 150,000-square-foot building off Bluebonnet Boulevard, very close to the current production plant. Capital City Press signed a five-year lease, with renewal options, on the building, which is part of Rev. Jimmy Swaggart's Family Worship Center Church Inc.
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