For the second time this year, a newspaper headquarters appears likely to be sold in Baltimore.

The former home of The Catholic Review newspaper, 876 to 880 Park Avenue, is vacant and under contract to an undisclosed buyer. The three-story building, which was constructed around 1909 as Griffin’s Garage and later housed the Park Sign Company, has 22,608 square feet of space and was renovated in 2001-2002 for the newspaper and its parent organization, the Cathedral Foundation. The asking price in the current sale was $1.85 million.

“The buyer of the Catholic Review building is a real estate investor and has a 90 day study period and then will settle in 30 days. That should be around October 1,” wrote Sean Caine, vice chancellor and executive director of communications for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, in an email.

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