The Minnesota Star Tribune has announced the closure of its Minneapolis printing plant as its shifts its newspaper printing to Iowa, with 125 workers set to be laid off as a result.
Star Tribune publisher and CEO Steve Grove confirmed on Monday the closure as part of the company’s “ongoing transformation into a modern, digital-first media company while ensuring the long-term financial health of the organization.”
The newspaper’s Heritage Printing Facility on North 1st Street in the Warehouse District has been operating for almost 40 years, opening in the years after the 1982 merger of the Minneapolis Tribune and the Minneapolis Star.
It will bring an end to 158 years of locally printed newspapers in the Twin Cities, with the Star Tribune henceforth being printed at a facility in Des Moines that is run by USA Today-owner Gannett…