Creative Loafing Tampa has a new owner

This just in: We've got a new owner. That would be "we," as in Creative Loafing Tampa and Creative Loafing Charlotte.

After the jump, read the text of today's memo from CL, Inc., our soon-to-be-former owners, and the press release from SouthComm, our soon-to-be-new owners (and parent company to three other alternative newsweeklies, the Nashville Scene, LEO Weekly in Louisville, and The Pitch in Kansas City).

More to come later, but initial impressions on this end are good. SouthComm places high value on quality edit content, and its alt-weekly publishing experience in mid-sized markets bodes well.