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#Austin Chronicle's historic headquarters to be paved over for I-35 expansion | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station
https://www.kut.org/transportation/2023-10-17/austin-chronicles-historic-headquarters-to-be-paved-over-for-i-35

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Austin Chronicle's historic headquarters to be paved over for I-35

The newspaper's building on the frontage road was once home to the 150-year-old Elgin-Butler Brick Co., which supplied bricks for the Capitol and UT.

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Mx. Kit O'Connell 🏳️‍🌈⭐👏Mar 29, 2024

"With the offices of The Austin Chronicle set to be demolished to make way for the I-35 expansion, publisher Nick Barbaro sent out the bat signal to current and former employees of the alt-weekly newspaper last week, inviting them for one last hurrah: the opening of a time capsule buried inside the building in 1999."
https://www.kut.org/austin/2024-03-29/austin-chronicle-time-capsule-i-35-expansion

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Austin Chronicle opens time capsule before I-35 edges out historic building

Excavating the 25-year-old time capsule was last on the alt-weekly newspaper's to-do list before the Texas Department of Transportation takes possession of its historic building for the upcoming highway expansion.

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