Newspaper s offices to move down the street this month
Ames Tribune
A father-and-sons partnership has purchased the Ames Tribune building and has plans to honor the historic structure while adding to the synergy of downtown Ames.
Jerry Nelson, president of Nelson Electric Company, and his sons, Chris Nelson, vice president, and Matt Nelson, manager, have purchased the building located at 317 Fifth St. in downtown Ames.
“We want to add our energy to the other neat things that are going on downtown the work at the Sheldon Munn that Dan Oh is doing, Noir bar opening up, the sidewalk repairs,” Chris Nelson said. “There are a lot of things happening downtown. The opportunity presented itself to play a bigger role in that, and we jumped on it.”
Ames Tribune staff
The Ames Tribune is set to move this month into an office space just down Fifth Street.
Offices will be located at 210 Fifth St., which formerly housed the McClanahan Studio gallery. Wife and husband duo Alex and Dan McClanahan own the building and maintain their photography business on the third floor.
“We’re excited to move into the beautiful, sunny space that the McClanahans have created, and we look forward to continuing the Tribune’s longtime presence in downtown Ames,” Tribune editor Kelly McGowan said.
The Tribune got its start in 1868 as the weekly Ames Intelligencer. After having residence in other downtown locations, the newspaper moved to its current space, 317 Fifth St., in 1929.