Marin IJ Confirms it's Leaving Novato For San Rafael

Months of rumors were confirmed Monday when theannounced that is moving out of Novato after 30 years back to its original home of San Rafael.

Publisher David Rounds made the announcement in Tuesday’s IJ and said the company signed a lease at 4000 Civic Center Drive in Terra Linda, in a hilltop complex that includes medical offices. The move will take place sometime this summer, he said.

The paper, owned by Denver-based MediaNews Group, once had nearly 300 employees but is down to about 70. The printing press that once produced the IJ, the Marinscope weekly newspapers, the Investor’s Business Daily and other publications, was shut down in October 2010, and the IJ has since been made in Concord.

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