Thirty-two years after opening, the Tampa Bay Times’ downtown Tampa office has closed its doors.
The bureau, which opened in 1992 on Ashley Drive near I-275, shut down with no fanfare in the first week of January, effectively closing the door on a generation’s worth of memories including multiple Pulitzer celebrations.
In a statement to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Time chairman and CEO Conan Gallaty said his team—which includes nearly 100 journalists—has embraced hybrid work and that it simply doesn’t need all that office space.
“We still cover Hillsborough County vigorously and have decided on a different office space in Tampa that better suits our needs,” Gallaty, who is supposed to publish a column on the matter, added.
Sherri Day, Communications Director for the Times also told CL that the “Tampa Bay Times” signage atop the
, will come down.
The Times’ new office is technically out of Tampa city limits at 5505 Johns Rd. Suite 710 in the Town ‘n’ Country area. Day, who also serves on the paper’s editorial board, told CL that there are about 20 workstations at the outpost.