When I worked at the Courier Journal in the 1980s, it had hundreds of reporters, a large advertising and circulation staff and printers who would run off thousands of newspapers every day for both the CJ and the Louisville Times, all from the corner of Sixth and Broadway.

That’s all over now. From Louisville Business First:

The Courier Journal is leaving its iconic Downtown Louisville headquarters.

The publication revealed today that it will move to new offices at 401 West Main St. in the One Riverfront Plaza building in Downtown Louisville.

The move ends a 75-year residency for the paper at its 451,000-square-foot HQ at 525 W. Broadway. The paper is currently leasing a single floor of the four-story building which it has occupied since 1947.

The Courier Journal is owned by McLean, Virginia-based Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI). Its portfolio also includes USA Today, hundreds of local media outlets in the U.S., and more than 150 news brands in the United Kingdom, according to its website.

Gannett sold the property to 525 W Broadway KY LLC for $11.3 million in 2022, according to a deed filed with the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office. The campus was listed the year prior for $14 million.

We reported earlier this year that the property failed to sell at auction in March.

You might ask, how will they fit hundreds of people in a smaller facility. Well, there aren’t hundreds of people anymore. When I last checked, there were fewer than 45 journalists at the CJ.

Its glory days are long gone. Gannett has bled it dry and it’s building is a relic of the past.