A building that until last summer housed presses that printed the Longmont Times-Call, Loveland Reporter-Herald, other Prairie Mountain Media papers and BizWest Media publications has been sold for $6 million.
The 61,095-square-foot industrial building at 801 N. Second St. in Berthoud was sold by an entity called 801 N 2nd Street Berthoud LLC to JJH Global Realty IV LLC.
Jason Ells and Alec Rhodes of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, while Angie Hiss and Philip Perington of Perington-Miller & Co. represented the buyer.
According to a statement emailed to BizWest from Perington-Miller, “(T)he buyer purchased the facility as an investment for future leasing and/or sale.”
Walt Elish, business development manager for the town of Berthoud, toured the building on Tuesday and said the buyer is cleaning up the facility.
“It’s going to be a great building for somebody,” Elish said.
Cushman & Wakefield’s Ells said in a prepared statement that the sale “presented a rare opportunity to acquire a high-quality industrial asset with exceptional infrastructure, including dock-high, drive-in and rail loading capabilities. Its strategic location, modern build and connectivity make it an ideal fit for large-scale industrial users operating across Northern Colorado and beyond.”
Built in 2008 and formerly home to Lehman Printing, the single-story facility features 12- to 33-foot clear heights, eight dock doors and a BNSF rail spur. The building includes 58 parking spaces and a fully sprinklered interior, supported by a reinforced concrete foundation and thick concrete flooring.
The complex decommissioning of the printing facility and transition to manufacturing required deep collaboration between the brokerage and project management teams at Cushman & Wakefield, as well as the on-site facilities manager, the seller’s out-of-state asset-management and construction team, and a variety of local contractors to complete.
Lehman Communications, whose publications included the Longmont Times-Call and Loveland Reporter-Herald, christened the $20 million Berthoud plant and its new MAN Roland press in 2009. The plant employed 78 full-time and part-time employees at the time. In 2011, Lehman was sold to Prairie Mountain Media, which soon moved the production of its Eastern Colorado weeklies to the Berthoud facility. Prairie Mountain is a subsidiary of MediaNews Group, which also owns The Denver Post as well as the Times-Call, Reporter-Herald, Greeley Tribune, Broomfield Enterprise, Estes Park Trail-Gazette and Colorado Hometown Weekly.
The facility also printed other publications on a contract basis, including the Boulder County Business Report and Northern Colorado Business Report, which were merged in 2014 to become BizWest.
Citing high costs and a shortage of skilled press operators, Prairie Mountain closed the Berthoud printing plant on Aug. 12, 2024, and moved production of newspapers and other publications to the Post’s production facility in Denver.
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