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Article: CVS selling Longs offices
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 14, 2009
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WALNUT CREEK -- CVS Caremark Corp. is hanging on to nearly every
drugstore it obtained through its $2.84 billion purchase of Longs
Drug Stores Corp., but it's a different story for several East Bay
offices CVS inherited through the deal.
Two office buildings, the former Longs headquarters in downtown
Walnut Creek and a Longs subsidiary office complex in Antioch, are
up for sale. And CVS is attempting to sublease an old Longs building
in the Shade-lands business park.
The CVS purchase of Longs was great news for the company's retail
employees, due to the dearth of store shutdowns following the
transaction. The aftermath was far more grim for non-retail
employees. CVS eliminated about 860 ...