M&T Bank has about 1,300 facilities totaling 10 million square feet, spanning 32 states and six countries.

Someone needs to be responsible for all of that real estate. And that person is Keith Belanger.

If anyone at M&T can appreciate the magnitude of the bank's growth, it is Belanger, a senior executive vice president who heads the corporate services division. In an interview at the bank's headquarters, he reflected on how comparatively small M&T was when he joined nearly four decades ago.

"If you couldn't see something from the 19th floor up here, it wasn't in our marketplace," Belanger said. "We were just Buffalo."

That has changed dramatically. Through a slew of acquisitions, M&T has transformed into one of the nation's largest banks. The bank now has about 22,000 employees, with b

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