The New Haven Independent reports that the owners of the New Haven Register plan to ask the city for a zoning variance in order to sell to a big-box store.
Since downsizing its newsroom and outsourcing its printing operation, as part of a new “digital first” strategy to adapt to 21st century publishing, the paper no longer needs its 200,000 square-foot building. It plans to move to a smaller space downtown.Once it sells the Long Wharf property.
