The Jacobs Management Center is fully equipped to serve all the needs of UB's globally recognized School of Management. The center features faculty offices, state-of-the-art classroom space, and computer laboratory facilities.

Namesake

Jeremy Jacobs The School of Management's building bears the Jacobs family name, in honor of a $1 million gift provided in 1985. The building honors the late Louis Jacobs and his wife, the late Genevieve Bibby Jacobs. The couple had three sons: Jeremy M. Jacobs, chair and CEO of Delaware North Companies, is chair of the UB Council and chaired the UB Presidential Search Advisory Committee whose efforts led to the naming of John B. Simpson as UB's 14th president. The late Lawrence D. Jacobs, a world-renowned researcher in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, was professor and chair of the UB Department of Neurology at the time of his death in 2001. Max Jacobs, a successful stage actor who counts King Lear among his roles, is active in a wide range of community and cultural activities.

Historical research and photographs provided by University Archives.

Building Facts

Primary function: Academic

Tenants: School of Management, Printed Document Services

Architect: Hutchins, Evans, and Lefferts of New York City; Biggie-Schaflucas of Buffalo

Completion date: January, 1985

Gross square feet: 83,997

Construction cost: $4,941,000