The Tower was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake , which forced the '' Tribune '' to relocate to new offices in Jack London Square . The Tower sat empty until 1995 , when John Protopappas purchased it for $ 300,000 . His company , Madison Park Financial Corporation , renovated the Tower in the late 1990s . The '' Tribune 's '' parent company , ANG Newspapers ( which purchased the newspaper from the Maynards in 1992 ) , returned the '' Tribune '' to the building after it reopened in 1999 . In early 2006 , Protopappas sold the Tower to Edward B. Kislinger for approximately $ 15 million . The '' Tribune '' moved permanently out of the Tower in 2007 and is now located in a building on Oakport Street , near the Oakland International Airport
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
Tribune Tower (Oakland)