220 SOUTH WARREN STREET
SYRACUSE MEDIA GROUP
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Syracuse Media Group was formed earlier this year to take over news reporting, advertising and marketing for Syracuse.com and The Post-Standard. Merchants Commons will house the company’s new headquarters, centrally located in Downtown Syracuse. Syracuse Media Group will move about 150 news reporters, advertising salespeople and other employees into the two-story, 28,000-square-foot office in Spring 2013. The new office is part of a restructuring of The Post-Standard into a 24hour digital news operation that will also print a newspaper. The glasslined, street level space was designed to be inviting to visitors. Inside, the office will have an open appearance, with a variety of work areas but no assigned desks or cubicles and no place to store documents or display personal belongings. Employees will carry their smart phones and laptop computers with them and post news stories, videos and photographs to syracuse.com on-the-go. Syracuse Media Group’s goal is to reform its work environment from a cubicle culture into a mobile culture. Its new business model embraces a forward-thinking news production with a digital focus. A sister company, Advance Central Services, will remain in The Post-Standard building at Clinton Square to run the press and provide support services such as accounting, customer service and human resources. Get a sneak preview of the bold, new Merchants Commons offices of Syracuse Media Group and its flagship brands, Syracuse.com and The Post-Standard. The still-evolving space promises to be innovative and state of the art – an apt reflection of Central New York’s newest and largest news, information and advertising company. When you visit, be sure to enter a drawing to win an iPad, and another to win a downtown experience package.
TYPE OF OFFICE SPACE: • Two-story office • 28,000 square feet UNIQUE FEATURES: • Centrally located in the Heart of Downtown • Contemporary, mostly open and airy glass-walled design with rooftop accessibility for employees and guests • Work spaces invite collaboration • State-of-the-art media tools that enable employees to be mobile and to canvass the community • No cubicles and no “assigned” seating or work stations – the office is equipped with comfortable couch areas, café seating, sit-stand workstations • Monitors and electronic ticker, visible both inside and outside of the office, will show headlines, Syracuse. com home page and Twitter feed, local weather, and anything Central New Yorkers may find of interest
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