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The Mackenzie Hughes law firm will relocate from the M&T Bank building, where it has been since about 1913, to the Galleries office tower, above, at 440 S. Warren St. in Syracuse in December.
(Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com)
Syracuse, N.Y. — After more than a century in offices near Clinton Square, the Mackenzie Hughes law firm is moving to the Galleries office tower three blocks away.
The law firm said Wednesday it will move its business office and 75 employees, including 36 attorneys, from the M&T Bank building at 101 S. Salina St. to the Galleries at 440 S. Warren St. in December.
The firm that became Mackenzie Hughes began in Syracuse in 1884. Its offices have been at the M&T Bank building (formerly the Onondaga County Savings Bank building) since about 1913, said Stephen T. Helmer, the firm's managing partner.
The Mackenzie Hughes law firm has been at the M&T Bank building, above, at 101 S. Salina St., Syracuse, since about 1913. The firm and its 75 employees, including 36 attorneys, will relocate to the Galleries office tower at 440 S. Warren St. in December 2016.
Mackenzie Hughes occupies the entire sixth floor and part of the fifth floor at the M&T Bank building. It will occupy the entire fourth floor of the Galleries office tower, a total of 27,000 square feet of office space and 5,000 square feet of storage space, he said.
Helmer said the firm will be able to create a more collaborative work environment with all of its employees on the same floor. He said the firm also wants to be part of the resurgence that Warren Street is undergoing — a resurgence that includes the recent reopening of the Hotel Syracuse as a 261-room, full-service Marriott.
"It's an up-and-coming part of the city and we want to be there," he said.
Mackenzie Hughes will lease space formerly occupied by Travelers Insurance, which pulled out of the Galleries a little more than a year ago and laid off 160 employees.
The new space will include a training room for approximately 40 people, new communication and document management systems.
Naming rights come with the lease. The Galleries Office Tower will be renamed Mackenzie Hughes Tower.
The Galleries opened in 1987. Rochester businessman David Flaum, of Flaum Management Co., bought the building in 1992. In addition to the office tower, the complex houses the Central Library of the Onondaga County Public Library.
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