Thursday, July 25, 2019 | 12:36 p.m.
RENO — The city of Reno is moving forward with a plan to buy a building housing a newspaper to use as its new police headquarters.
The city council voted Wednesday to proceed with negotiations to purchase the 7-acre Reno Gazette Journal property for $7 million.
The city estimates that moving the police department to the more spacious property will cost about $33 million.
Reno plans to pay for it through grants, borrowing and property sales.
Reno Gazette Journal Executive Editor Brian Duggan says the newspaper will start looking for a new office that "will better suit our news organization's digital future."
The city aims to have the sale finalized by September.
