A 7,000 square foot building currently serving as the home to the long-running Deming Headlight newspaper is scheduled to be put up for auction in earlier December.
Located at 219 E. Maple Street, the one-story cement structure was built in 1980 and sits on a less than 1-acre site in downtown Deming.
The building contains a front lobby-style space, several individual offices towards the center of the building, and a large rear production space that could be used as a warehouse.
The Headlight was founded in the 1880s and was formerly owned by the Media News Group. In 2015 the paper was purchased by Gannett Company.
As with the El Paso Times, which is also owned by Gannett, the Headlight is now printed at a production facility in Ciudad Juarez.
That means that the printing press once a part of the Headlight building on Maple Street is no longer a part of the newspaper’s operations.
A source has indicated that if the building is sold at auction, the newspaper’s operations will be moved elsewhere in Deming.
The online auction for the Maple Street property will be held between December 6 and 8 via the site Ten-X.com.
By Garry Boulard
