Wow.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) confirmed Monday it will leave its downtown headquarters and makes its new home in Atlanta’s Perimeter submarket in the first quarter of 2010.

The new AJC headquarters will be 223 Perimeter Center Parkway, across the street from the Dunwoody MARTA station and outside the Perimeter. The building is Macy’s former Southeast headquarters.

Welcome to the new normal.  The one where AJC reporters lunch at Perimeter Mall instead of on Broad Street.

UPDATE: Scott Henry notes on Fresh Loaf that the AJC has done business in downtown Atlanta for over 140 years.  The AJC’s official note includes this not so compensatory tidbit…

The AJC remains committed to covering downtown, Joseph said. The paper will maintain its Capitol bureau and also plans to add an intown bureau for reporters, he said. Details on the intown bureau have not been determined.