{"id":12237,"date":"2016-08-31T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2016-08-31T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:00:15","slug":"wgn-radio-no-plans-to-leave-tribune-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/08\/31\/wgn-radio-no-plans-to-leave-tribune-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"WGN Radio: No plans to leave Tribune Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tribune<\/a>

<\/a> Tribune Tower (Photo: Robert Feder)<\/p><\/div>\n

The sale of Tribune Tower<\/a> doesn\u2019t mean WGN AM 720<\/a> will be moving its studios and offices any time soon.<\/p>\n

Officials of the Tribune Media news\/talk station assured employees Tuesday they\u2019ll continue to work out of the landmark neo-Gothic tower at 435 North Michigan Avenue despite their parent company\u2019s agreement to sell the property in a $240 million deal with Los Angeles-based developer CIM Group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile this will require a move for many of our corporate co-workers based here, it does not immediately affect WGN Radio,\u201d management wrote in a memo to staff.\u00a0\u201cWe have a lease for our offices and studios on both the first and sevenths floors which runs through June of 2018.\u00a0 When the time is right, we\u2019ll begin negotiations with CIM Group to extend our lease in this storied home of ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Col.<\/a>

Col. Robert R. McCormick at Tribune Tower (1950)<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s unlikely WGN will continue to occupy its street-level Allstate Showcase Studio overlooking Michigan Avenue and Pioneer Court once its current lease expires. But most of its facilities are located on the seventh floor since a major buildout was completed in 2012.<\/p>\n

The future appears less certain for employees of the Chicago Tribune, <\/a>who\u2019ve occupied their namesake headquarters since 1925. For them it\u2019s not a question of if but when they will move \u2014 and where.<\/p>\n

Since Tribune Publishing (now tronc) was spun off from Tribune Media in 2014, the newspaper company has been the largest tenant of Tribune Tower. Its lease there runs through 2018.<\/p>\n

The newspaper and its parent company have \"no immediate plans to leave early,\" tronc spokeswoman Dana Meyer told<\/a> the Tribune Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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