Some people love it. Others loathe it.

But most of the time, it is necessary.

This is the last column and one of the last stories I'll write at The Examiner's Paterson Street office.

From Monday, our swipe cards will no longer let us into the 170-year-old building and instead, we will have new entry cards for our modern office at Cimitiere House.

It is a sad time for The Examiner.

A lot of people have walked through the building's doors.

A lot of history has been made and reported on from inside the Paterson Street walls, but it's also an exciting opportunity.

We are not closing the book.

We are opening a new chapter, which for most of us, we are looking forward to.

It will be a fresh start and a new exciting energy in a colourful office. (I say colourful because it literally is. The desk chairs have different coloured cushions; we have booths that are pink, orange and blue, and plants will be scattered throughout.)

Change is a good thing - most of the time - and when it comes to Launceston, change is probably exactly what we need.

We need to move with the times if we want to make our city a vibrant place.

The past week has seen a lot of discussions take place about the University of Tasmania's announcement to move its Newnham campus to Inveresk.

Like many people, I initially thought "what a waste of money".

I thought "why did they waste millions of dollars just last year to build accommodation on-site when they knew they would eventually be moving campus"?

I had a case of: "no, we don't need change".

But the more I think about it, the more it seems a great idea to inject new life into the city and open up prime waterfront land to buyers.

I've always been a big believer that if things aren't broken, they don't need fixing.

In The Examiner's case and the university's case, they both need fixing.

Both building facilities are old and outdated and for the organisations it would perhaps cost more to update them than to just move on, which is what they are doing.

The university's vice-chancellor Peter Rathjen said during the week that the Newnham campus was never built to be a university and was not suited for that purpose.

He said it initially joined the former site of Brooks High School and was transformed to the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education in 1971.

It makes sense that the organisations are moving with the times and going to better purpose-designed buildings, because things aren't the same as they were decades ago.

As a community we need to learn to stop saying no to things because we don't want to accept change.

Take the C.H Smith building site, for example.

If people said yes to the change initially, we wouldn't have had an eyesore junk-yard looking site for this long.

Change is important.

If we want our city to grow we have to accept that change has to happen.

After all, we are not going to get anywhere if we just keep doing what we've always done.