Lubbock A-J keeps roots downtown in move to new location - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

The A-J holds the title of oldest continually operating business in Lubbock. That story started small, with the first weekly edition of what was then called the Lubbock Avalanche coming off the press in the back room of a one-story frame building at the northeast corner of Main Street and Texas Avenue. The paper shared that space with co-founder J.J. Dillard's law office, a detail pulled from historian Chuck Lanehart's two-part Caprock Chronicles series on the paper's origins.

From that cramped back room, the operation eventually outgrew its space and moved to a larger location. That pattern is repeating itself more than a century later.

For people here, the move matters because it says something about downtown Lubbock's staying power. A business that has watched the city grow up around it for 126 years isn't packing up for the suburbs or a business park off Loop 289. It has outlived streetcars, oil booms, and a tornado, and it's still printing from the same core blocks near Main and Texas Avenue where it started.