Exploring the abandoned London Free Press Building in London, Ontario (Part two)

Exploring the abandoned London Free Press Building in London, Ontario. The building, located at 369 York Street is now demolished.
Note: The chaulk comment is meant for other explorers, if you find yourself puzzled over why I said that :)

History

In August of 2005, Quebecor announced that the LFP would no longer be printed at the 369 York Street Location. The paper would now be printed in Toronto, resulting in a loss of 180 jobs. The plan was put on hold to allow the London Free Press to present a plan to keep the printing staff. The LFP printing room printing not only local news media but papers for the chatham Daily News, Sarnia Observer, Simcoe Reformer, St. Thomas times-HJoutrnal and Woodstock Sentinel.

On May 31, 2016 Sun Media announced that printing of the newspaper would be outsourced to Metroland Media in Hamilton. Sixty-one full time and seventy four part timepeople were let go.

By now most of the York Street location newsroom had fallen silent. The office consisted of empty workstations, an empty printing press room, empty sports and city desks and even the editors' offices.

By 2019, newspaper media was losing ground to online media. Newspapers by this time were much thinner and less in demand. In 2019 operations were moved to 210 Dundas Street. The former York Street building was sold to Smhuel Farhi, a property developer.

Farhi had planned a project he called Venture London. Venture London would be a $20 million retrofit of the location into a place for small businesses to receive startup support, services and workshops. By 2021 the building was still empty, with all previous tenants now gone.

Farhi was asked about this in 2021 to which he responded that he was building a mixed-use 1000 unit community. The building remained vacant until January of 2024 at which time demolition equipment appeared.

Overnight security was then put into place to watch over the equipment. By the second week of January 2024, demolition had begun on the property.

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