Sarasota Memorial board votes to buy former newspaper office $11.83 million

Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s board of directors voted unanimously Monday to invest $17.34 million to acquire and enhance the Herald-Tribune Media Group’s former Main Street headquarters in downtown Sarasota.

Hospital officials say the purchase could be completed as early as December, consolidating five offices in a move that will relocate more than 300 workers to the 1741 Main St. building next spring. The shift would be the largest corporate or governmental relocation in the city in at least a decade.