Former downtown Advocate property for sale

The former downtown site of Capital City Press LLC is officially up for grabs, according to Kurz and Hebert Commercial Real Estate, the sales agent for the Manship family, which owns the property. George Kurz, co-owner of the real estate firm, says the land at 525 Lafayette St. is packaged with a parking lot southeast of the square-block site. He says a for-sale sign went up about a month ago at the location where The Advocate operated for decades before moving to Bluebonnet Boulevard. “It’s a prime development site on the river,” Downtown Development District Executive Director Davis Rhorer says. “We’ve had maybe four or five different groups express interest on that.” Kurz says the land has been bulldozed for about two years and could host a multi-level parking garage, condominiums or other downtown residential space, or office space. “Their plan was to do something with the property,” he says of the owners, “and at this point the best thing to do is to look forward to a sale.” To view an aerial schematic of the site and learn other details, click here.