Most newspapers around the country are laying off employees. Not here in Naples though! The NDN is building a new HQ with more sq ft than it has subscribers! What a fiscally sound idea...

....so when is it expected to be completed, up and running???? Why is a new building required? During a growing number of newspapers laying off employees and downscaling, one wonders why the Naples Daily News is expanding its print capabilities. There's a shift to electronic versions of major dailies. One would think the NDN would do a better job reporting on their own project and address these questions, don't you agree?

Hope there are still enough NDN employees left to keep the presses rolling when this new facility opens.

The wrong building in the wrong location.

NDN once again proves it is anything BUT a good neighbor.

Why was the high school band present?

Add one more vacant building in downtown Naples.

Can't think of any way this new building makes sense.

But, it will provide work for construction workers.

Money Money Money.

NDN dosen't need people to buy the paper.
A Quarter page ad on Sunday will cost you around $15,000.

Just follow the money....

If you worked in the old building you would know why they are building, it is bulging at the seams with people doubleing up in cubicles sometimes also with the market in Naples there are still alot of the older population who still read the news paper and dont do it online. This is a sound move on the part of Scripps and the Naples Daily News.
If they were going out of business you would all be crying because of more jobs lost. Get over it.

The printed newspaper, the rotary phone and the Edsel will all enjoy each others company in the dust bins of history.

I really pray that most of the readers of our newspaper are not represented above. What a bunch of half-empty, nothing is ever good or right, complaining people.

The only thing you would not woman about is someone offering you free money, because my guess is most of you have your hand out, and love Hillary or Obama.

Good Luck NDN.

Wow, while cops and teachers are struggling...

sowestfla1975 took the words right out of my computer ....

Did any one notice that all the leveling and survey equipment on the construction site seemed to have a built in error of about 5 degrees to the left...maybe 10 at times..
And don't worry about those presses running there's plenty of advertizing inserts management will be lowball bidding for other papers..

I'm thinking this is positively not necessary. And this is now "OLD" news so you can archieve it and bring it back every few months (like you do with most stories) and recycle it until the new building is finished.

always room for a good stick to the democrats, even as our country teters on the edge of the abyss. Funny part is, even people who make less than 200k a year think they are republicans in this town, when its those same people who are being exploited by them.

NDN, good luck with the new building!

can someone with judgment explain why or how this is worthy of a headline?

NDN is a self centered self absorbed .....

19 posts so far, and no-one has blamed anything on illegals! A record?

Lala:

Correctomundo!

SW Fla is God's waiting room (but which God??)for the printing press era.

The printing press is as dead as the Bush Administration's policies!

PS: Have any steel blue colored hair dye?

I can't believe all of the negative blogs. A major corporation has enough confidence in the Naples economy to invest almost 100 million dollars and you folks are complaining. The fall of the newspaper business has been predicted for almost 50 years now and it still has not happened. When radio first came out...people predicted the end of the newspapers...then when television came out people predicted the end of the newspapers...then when the internet came out people predicted the end of the newspaper. It's not going to happen. The newspaper business will adjust to changing times and will survive.

why do you all care?
Wouldnt you think that, since it is so large, it my create a couple of jobs?

Why does the newspaper think they are news? Tons of buildings are going up all over - who cares?

Wow, some of you are really clueless. I guess you don't actually READ the NDN. It is news that they are building a new facility. I guess if you think this is bad news or no news at all you'd rather see headlines like someone getting in an accident or a teacher is having an affair with her student. You are all pathetic for not wishing them the best. Crawl back into that hole from where you came from. Good luck NDN!!!

It's sad to see so many bitter people around here. I don't know why they have to get bent all out of shape because a newspaper is setting up a new HQ. What difference does it make in their lives?

I guess it just doesn't fit into their view of everyone in America being thrown out of their homes and standing in mile-long soup kitchen lines asking "Please sir, may I have some more?" (Oliver Twist for anyone who doesn't recognize the quote.)

when i can i read the printed news because i find things i didn't know were interesting. i read the internet news to sift through to what i want to know. and it is fun to read your ranting. generally trailing off into stupidity. but fun. i think if all of you just stuck to the point of the article these blogs would be boring.

Scripps purchased the land at the peak of the real estate boom. That is significant for two reasons. First, the vast majority of advertising was at the time based on real estate ads and the NDN was a crown jewel in the Scripps newspaper crown. Secondly, when they bought the property, they paid top dollar. The property is now worth a fraction of what they paid for it. They are also stuck with the decaying building on Central Ave.

NDN is no longer the jewel raking in millions of advertising dollars in a real estate building boom gone bust. In a downturned economy on the brink of recession (some would argue SW FL is already in a recession) businesses are cutting back on everything including advertising, so there is nothing to argue for expansion at this time.

It looks more like they can't afford to sell the property now and the old building is a hazard, so they are trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Other posts note that the day of the 'dead wood' version of the paper are quickly being eclipsed by the internet. There is no logical reason for this expansion. NDN management has pushed out aging staff, and has become a hostile workplace. What happened to the last NDN publisher? He was abruptly terminated.

There may actually be an interesting story but we are not likely to get it from those scrambling to keep their dwindling NDN jobs with benefits.

NDN sucks!

NDN is NOT a non-profit or government organization. If they want a new building they do not have to answer to you!

I wish the NDN well. However, I wish they weren't so biased. It would be refreshing to see them become a newspaper that reported facts without their added opinion or slant. Good luck in the future. I hope you grow in the right direction.