It’s happening again, this time to The Daily Breeze–a newspaper which, like our own Press-Telegram, is owned by Dean Singleton’s MediaNews Group, and whose own Gene Maddaus gave us much–but not all–the recent coverage of Rep. Laura Richardson’s (D-Long Beach) hijinks. And lo-jinks!

Yes, The Breeze is on the hoof, fleeing its iconic, blue-tiled, 43-year home for the building formerly known as the Computax building–now known as the South Bay Tower. The newspaper will still be in Torrance, which made that city’s mayor happy–just in a different building.

It’s bigger–which in this case is better–and the layout is nicer too. But will losing a key piece of its past (and Torrance history as well) change morale or have any effect on business as usual at The Breeze? Of course not, sources said.

“It’s the most recent Class A building built in Torrance,” The Breeze’s real estate broker Tim Vaughan told The Breeze recently, for the requisite story about its bags having been packed.

(And no, we have no idea what a Class A building is, but maybe you can drive it with a Class A license?)

“There are few South Bay locations better than our current one, but I’m convinced our new offices will be even more advantageous for our employees, customers and overall presence in the community,” Breeze Publisher Mark Ficarra said in an employee memo.

If this sounds similar to what happened a year or so ago, when Press-Telegram reporters ankled the paper’s classic building at 6th Street and Pine Avenue for the Arco Towers, well, it is.

Singleton seems to have an uncanny way of knowing that vintage buildings can bring modern prices.

He sold The Breeze’s 6.7-acre lot last year to the Little Company of Mary Hospital. As for the P-T, its old building is due to be turned into lofts … some time.

And considering sources said mostly the same sorts of reassuring things when the P-T moved, maybe iconic longtime homes don’t mean what we thought they used to.

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