When the city’s fifth largest law firm prepared to move 126 attorneys and 124 staff members into 112,000 square feet on seven floors in Chase Tower, it recognized the challenge. Bose hired Relocation Strategies to work with an internal planning team on the move which, in total, took more than a year of planning.
Relocation Strategies completed a furniture inventory that allowed Bose to reuse 85 percent of the existing furniture, negotiated excellent discounts on new and arranged for the removal of unwanted furniture from the old location.
The move required extremely careful coordination and sensitivity to about 4,000 boxes filled with confidential files. Because of limited freight elevators in both the new and the old buildings, the move took place in stages on four weekends leading up to the big move. The big move happened over Labor Day weekend. It was deemed a success when the attorneys and staff came in after the three-day weekend, and everyone had a working phone and computer and the correct files.
“Downtime is a bad word in the legal field. So our goal was to minimize the downtime, which we did.”
Vicki L. Bruce, chief operations officer, Bose McKinney & Evans
