NORTHAMPTON — When 2023 begins, the Daily Hampshire Gazette will operate from a new location for the first time in more than 47 years.
The company’s move to a 7,000-square-foot building at 23 Service Center Road, only a few hundred yards from the 115 Conz St. headquarters where it has been based since October 1975, means that the Gazette will continue to call home the city where its first paper was printed in 1786.
The Amherst Bulletin is produced at the Gazette offices.
Gazette Publisher Shawn Palmer announced the move and the lease for the new building on Monday, noting that only about one-quarter of the current site is being used by the newspaper.
The Conz Street building, which originally opened as a First National Supermarket, is warehouse size and has production space that is no longer needed, Palmer said.
“We are committed to Hampshire County and are delighted to be staying in Northampton,” Palmer said.
Jack Fortier, the landlord for the Service Center Road site, said he is excited to have the Gazette as the next tenant at the location that, until two weeks ago, had been used as the Western Regional Health Office for the state’s Department of Public Health.
“I’m looking forward to a very long relationship with the Gazette,” Fortier said.
The Gazette’s current 45,000-square-foot building, on 3.57 acres of land, was sold for $3 million in April to Mansour Ghalibaf, who runs the Fairfield Inn at 115A Conz St. and the Hotel Northampton at 36 King St.
