ADVISORY: West Academic hosting open house at new Saint Paul location
City of St. Paul sent this bulletin at 12/04/2013 04:31 PM CST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 4, 2013
Contacts:
Sara Swenson, Marketing & Public Relations Manager Julie Flower, Marketing Manager
City of Saint Paul – Planning & Economic Development West Academic
sara.swenson@ci.stpaul.mn.us julie.flower@westacademic.com
651-266-6575 (direct) 651-202-4821 (direct)
651-387-2343 (cell)
ADVISORY ADVISORY ADVISORY ADVISORY
West Academic hosting open house at new Saint Paul location
Corporate Headquarters now located in UBS Plaza
What: On Thursday, December 5, Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman will welcome home one of Saint Paul’s most historic companies at the open house event for West Academic’s new corporate headquarters located in the UBS Plaza building in downtown Saint Paul. West Academic was established in Saint Paul in 1872, and is now returning after spending the past two decades in Eagan.
West Academic is occupying 23,000 square feet of office space that houses 73 employees and provides room to add seven jobs over the next year. The company has become the leading publisher of casebooks, treatises, study aids and other legal education materials in the United States serving students, faculty, bookstores and consumers. Their products are sold under the West Academic Publishing, Foundation Press and Gilbert imprints.
West Academic, once the law school publishing arm for Thomson Reuters, was divested in February, 2013. In 1996, Thomson Corporation acquired West Publishing, a company founded in Saint Paul by John B. West and his brother Horatio in 1872.
Who: Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman
Chris Parton, West Academic CEO
Where: 444 Cedar Street, Suite 700, Saint Paul
When: Thursday, December 5, 2013 from 4 to 6:30 p.m.
Remarks at 4:45 p.m. followed by a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce
