New Albany’s hapless Tribune is scooped yet again as the Courier’s-Journal's Indiana columnist, Dale Moss, goes public with news of publisher Gerry Durnell’s plans to establish a business incubator in the abandoned Robinson-Nugent buildings on 8th Street.
Old factory could give life to New Albany companies … Publisher plans business incubator, by Dale Moss (limited shelf life for C-J links)
Durnell once was publisher of Pizza Today, operating the magazine out of attractively remodeled office space at the old Fair Store on the corner of Market and Bank Streets.
When Durnell's interests turned to automotive specialty publishing, he sold Pizza Today (now operating in Louisville) and moved his publishing business to the present location at Robinson-Nugent. He’s selling the Fair Store building, which some believe to be an ideal site for the consolidation of county offices until a projected new City-County building is constructed near Scribner Place.
Meanwhile, recent Tribune "news" stories have listed the participants in a riverfront gospel concert booked for his namesake Trinkle Dome by the ever hip Bob "Stonedeaf Band" Trinkle, surveyed the establishment of a Dog Club by the 4H, and described a local woman's amazement at going to lunch at Southside and being served a cheese sandwich that bore a perfect likeness of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.*
*Okay, so I made up the cheese sandwich item. It's artistic license.
I guess the questionable part of me wonders why he moved the small publishing business out of the old Fair Store building?
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