LA Times moving to El Segundo

The new home of the Los Angeles Times will be at 2300 E. Imperial Highway in El Segundo.

A spokesman for Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, soon to be the newspaper's new owner, said The Times would relocate to that address permanently sometime before the end of June, when the lease at its longtime headquarters in downtown Los Angeles expires. Employees will move into a 120,000-square-foot building already on the site, at the intersection of Imperial Highway and North Douglas Street.

The building is currently being reconfigured to house a newsroom spread across multiple floors as well as a cafeteria, a museum gallery, a retail shop, multimedia studios and event spaces, Soon-Shiong said Friday during an interview. The Times has been at its current location in downtown L.A. since 1935. But it became a lessee in 2014 after Tribune Co., a previous owner, spun off its newspapers — without their real estate — into a separate business unit. Then, two years later, Tribune Media Co. sold the iconic Art Deco building to Canadian developer Onni Group.

L.A. Times will move to 2300 E. Imperial Highway in El Segundo


The building at 2300 E. Imperial Highway in El Segundo is the future home of the Los Angeles Times, according to
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who is in the process of buying the newspaper. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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The new editor:



Fred G. Sanford. The G stands for journalism.

 

Hey, it's close enough to walk to the airport!

 

I've actually never been to LA but isn't this a little ironic? Didn't the Chandlers use the Times for all those years as a cheerleader for their interests downtown? And now their final legacy is gone?

 

The timeframe of the move was announced last week, yet I remain shocked that the entire office is moving before the end of June. They'll do that AND manage to put a major newspaper out every day? Sounds like the next 10 weeks will be a ton of fun.

 

Particulary since the sale has yet to be finalized. I guess the move will happen even if the sale collapses.

 

I enjoy reading Steve Lopez of the LAT.

Spanish names, cultural shifts and a lot of L.A. linguist confusion. El Se-gun-dough or El Say-goon-dough?

El Segundo has several good restaurants along Rosecrans west of the 405 and a couple of upscale mall developments on Sepulveda north of Rosecrans.

Here is one:
about - The Point

 

Historic sale of the L.A. Times to billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong to close on Monday

 

That's actually a really interesting piece. Every time El Segundo comes up, I wonder why it's The Second City. Now I know

 

Anyone have any Otis Chandler stories?
Was he the real deal, or is that just the legend?

 

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