• by Ray Schultz , March 27, 2024

Bucking the trend of newspapers selling off real estate, Reade Brower, publisher of The Courier-Gazette, Camden Herald, Republican Journal and Free Press, is buying a two-story building in Camden, Maine. 

The newspaper operations could move into the location on Mechanic Street as early as this summer. 

Now housed in the building are Jaret & Cohn, Bagel Café, the Mechanic Street Barbershop and the Inn at Camden Place. 

Brower plans to use the second floor for the newspapers for Islandport Press, a book publication firm, and for Mail Maine, his direct mail marketing company, according to an article by Daniel Dunkle, executive editor of the newspapers. 

“It’s the perfect building,” Brower says, the report continues. “It fits all the criteria. It is much more versatile and allows us to branch out.”