AJC’s downtown bureau will be at WSB

Those folks at Cox are really pinching their pennies these days.

You’ll recall that the remaining newsroom denizens at the AJC were told back in August that they’d be relocating to new offices next-door to Perimeter Mall within a year’s time.

In the intervening months, I’ve heard stories of AJC reporters scrambling to find some arrangement or accommodations — even a spare desk in the bowels of a downtown government building — rather than be forced to drive into the commuting netherworld that is Perimeter Center.

Some are hoping they’ll be allowed to cyber-commute. Others are hoping they’ll be assigned to the paper’s new “intown bureau” whose location had yet to be announced.

Well, it’s now been announced, and it’s at — no surprise — the WSB office building off Peachtree Street at the northwestern edge of Ansley Park. Cox Media Group, the withering arm of the Coxtopus that includes newspapers, radio and TV, owns both the AJC and WSB.