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Office moves: Downsizing gives Chicago group future flexibility

ACOFP's new office includes a communal kitchen table and two cubicles with couches for relaxing. Months before the pandemic hit, Bob Moore and the board of American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians discussed moving."The big question was, would it financially be to our benefit?" recalled Moore, ACOFP's executive director.The headquarters ACOFP built in the late 1980s in Arlington Heights, a suburb of Chicago, no longer suited the association's needs. At 22,000 square feet, the space was too large and not appreciating in value. Utilities, maintenance and improvements were costly, and taxes went up by $100,000 each year."We would hire attorneys to contest (the tax… Read More