By JAMES FINK
jfink@bizjournals.com | 716-541-1611

As part of a needs evaluation, the U.S. Postal Service has put its Jamestown headquarters on the market.

It retained Clarke Thrasher of Hunt Real Estate Corp. to sell the three-story, 88,686-square-foot building. The 53-year-old property, located on East Third Street in Jamestown's main business district, includes two adjoining surface lots and enough space for 108 vehicles.

The asking price is $750,000.

"The existing building is too big for us now," said Karen Mazurkiewicz, Western New York district spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

She said if a buyer can be found, her agency will move forward on plans to find two smaller facilities in the area. One would be for its retail operations and the other for carrier functions.

For now, the post office will remain in the building until a buyer emerges.

"We are going on the premise that this project won't move forward unless we have a buyer," Mazurkiewicz said.

The post office has been the anchor tenant and owner of the building since it was built in 1958. Other federal tenants include local offices for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Passport Office and Social Security Administration. Those four  have leases that run through Sept. 30, 2014.

The decision to move has already been discussed with Jamestown leaders, according to Mazurkiewicz.

"There wasn't much of a push back but they were curious about what we were going to do," she said. "We answered those questions."