The old Herald-Sun building, located on Pickett Road, will soon be the home of self-storage units and office space.
The pressroom at the old Herald-Sun building will soon become self-storage units, and the rows of desks that made up the newsroom will once again become office space. More than a year after buying the former offices of The Herald-Sun at 2828 Pickett Road , Durham- based Ticon Properties is in the middle of an extensive renovation of the 27-year-old building. The newspaper originally moved from downtown into the Pickett Road building in 1990 before relocating to an office building near Northgate Mall in 2015. Ticon will retrofit the newspaper building to include 70,000 square feet of climate-controlled self-storage units, 60,000 square feet of office space and an additional 10,000 square feet of retail space. The renovations are likely to be completed next year. Ticon, which is owned by Jack McGhee, bought the building from Paxton Media Group , the former owner of The Herald-Sun, in July 2016 for $3.25 million. Ticon owns several apartment complexes and commercial spaces across grea...