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Article: A TALE OF TWO PRINTING PLANTS.(Kansas City Star; The Seattle Times)
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- NewsInc
- Article date:
- March 17, 2003
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With war clouds on the horizon and uncertain economic times, it's not unusual that two publishers half-way acros the country from one another would view building and plant expansion in different ways. Here are examples of these extremes:
*In Missouri, Knight Ridder's Kansas City Star recently handed out the contract for designing and building a new $199 million production complex in downtown Kansas City.
The Austin Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, will handle the planning and execution phases of the project destined to provide the newspaper with 424,000 square feet of production space.
The new facility will house four, nine-unit, 36-tower Commander ...