Trib puts plant in Marshall for sale

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Trib Total Media is trying to sell its former printing facility in Marshall.

The publishing company listed the two-story Newsworks plant that sits on 13 acres in the RIDC Thorn Hill Industrial Park at a price of $8.5 million.

The plant opened in 1997 at a reported cost of more than $40 million and produced the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review until December when the Trib stopped that publication’s print edition.

All of the company’s printing, including production of the Greensburg Tribune-Review and Valley News Dispatch, has since been consolidated at a Trib-owned facility in Tarentum. Trib Total Media also publishes about a dozen regional weeklies and The Pennysaver.

An attempt to sell the facility marks the latest step in Trib Total Media’s ongoing efforts to downsize since the 2014 death of its publisher Richard Mellon Scaife.

Over the last several years the company has sold or closed some papers, cut delivery, and trimmed staff through layoffs and buyouts.

Employees housed in the D.L. Clark Building on the city’s North Shore are in the process of relocating to Trib offices in Penn Hills.

According to a listing brochure from real estate broker Colliers International, the Marshall plant’s assessed value is $7 million.