In their place have arisen galleries, seminar rooms, special-collections centers, consolidated service points, and a gleaming, glass-roofed atrium.
Big hotels, meanwhile, have eliminated jobs and consolidated services ranging from reservation centers to laundries.
"People are looking for more consolidated services now, one-stop shopping," Dr. Ivan Walks, the former chief health officer for Washington said in an interview.
Mr. Spano's aides say the county executive has cut 164 jobs, eliminated the Department of General Services, consolidated services and made government more efficient with the use of technology.
As a result, both consolidated product revenues (+2%) and consolidated services (+9%) grew on a year-over-year basis to $9.7 billion and $7.6 billion, respectively.
Moving nursing home beds to the medical center would enable consolidated food service and laundry operations.
Critics say that a consolidated fire service will do little to increase residents' protection from the annual rash of wildfires.
AllianceRx Walgreens Prime, which is based in Orlando, manages "several consolidated mail service and central specialty pharmacy operations" and have 3,000 employees across the country.
Since the change, Tulsa mayors have been given more power in accordance with a strong mayoral system and have greater control of a more consolidated array of governmental branches.
The consolidation comes four days after Kraft consolidated media services for the United States and Canada, with billings estimated at $750 million to $800 million, at the Starcom MediaVest Group unit of the Bcom3 Group.
Subsequently, a subsidiary of Canadian Northern Railways consolidated telecommunications services in the region that eventually extended throughout most of the Canadian north, including Yukon.
