Author: Jason Hughes
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Six Takeaways from James Clear’s Atomic Habits for Getting 1% Better Daily
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As a business leader, I am constantly on the hunt for inspirational reads, as well as ways to improve efficiency and spark innovation. A few years ago, I came across a book that I knew would be both a professional and personal game changer, with concepts that I have added to my daily routines to…
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What was once the unthinkable is now our reality. Outside of Bill Gates and maybe a handful of epidemiologists from around the world, I’m not sure anyone could have dreamt of a global social and economic lockdown to head off a global pandemic. So here we are, nearly three months of home quarantine, realizing that most of us can actually…
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High-volume portfolios of space held under lease have hundreds or thousands of individualized lease agreements spread over multiple locations nationally or worldwide. The type and quantity of lease data varies from site to site. This jigsaw puzzle, if you will, interests bright minds in commercial and corporate real estate, and can attract new talent to the field. Property portfolios of…
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I’ve been fortunate to have many very special experiences, both personal and professional, with my family. But the morning of June 12, 2017, certainly ranks as one of the top professional experiences I can think of.
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Two brokers have left CBRE to open a Seattle office for San Diego-based Hughes Marino next week. Owen Rice, formerly senior vice president at CBRE, joins Hughes Marino as executive vice president. His colleague, Gavin Curtis, will serve as vice president.
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Landlords would prefer to keep you in the dark – which is why our team at Hughes Marino collectively spends tens of thousands of hours advocating for the rights of our tenants during lease negotiations. But what about after everything is said and done and the lease is signed – how can you be sure your landlord isn’t billing you…
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Imagine a campaign manager working for two opposing candidates. Or a law firm attempting to defend both plaintiff and defendant. People and companies tend to steer clear of such arrangements and their inherent conflicts of interest, whether inspired by statute or common sense. But the business of real estate has for decades operated knee deep in dueling allegiances, to the…
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While apartments and hotels have gone up downtown at a comfortable pace, it remains an open question whether there will be enough new office buildings to meet downtown boosters’ hopes for a vibrant commercial center, especially in East Village’s 35-block I.D.E.A. District.
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Tech companies have influenced our lives tremendously in the last decade. Think Google. Uber. Facebook. Apple. They’ve also had an enormous influence in the past 10 years or so on office design. They’ve also had an enormous influence in the past 10 years or so on office design. (Beginning with a love for bare brick walls and exposed duct ceilings.)
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The tech industry has done amazing things for humanity and its contributions are ubiquitous in virtually everything we do. It comes as no surprise that the tech industry also forced the old-school commercial office space world to re-evaluate its boring, vanilla, box-like past. With the help of creative architects and planners, office space is striking a balance between work and…
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Dan Khabie got exactly what he was looking for when he moved his digital marketing firm from the Gaslamp into 18,000 square feet of space in East Village’s DiamondView Tower in 2011.