Author: Jason Hughes
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Olympic Training for Companies: How to Make Your Boat Go Faster
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By Jason & Shay Hughes One of our favorite books, Will it Make the Boat Go Faster?, written by British Olympic gold medalist rower, Ben Hunt-Davis, shares the inspiring story of his team’s path from merely participating in the international circuit to reaching the utmost pinnacle of success on the world’s stage. After years of coming in…
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Hughes Marino, a San Diego-based commercial real estate services provider, has opened two new offices in Northern California and announced an expansion and relocation of one of its Los Angeles offices.
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Jason Hughes, president and CEO of Hughes Marino, the largest commercial real estate firm exclusively dedicated to tenant and buyer services in San Diego, still remembers when he first became enamored with office buildings. “I didn’t come from a well-off family. I was in a program in junior high school where I was paired with a mentor, who was a…
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Commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm Hughes Marino has completed its own creative-office space at 2 Park Plaza, Suite 750, here. The space is the firm’s unique version of the creative-office concept, which strives for the right balance between traditional private offices and public space. GlobeSt.com has learned that Gensler was the architect and Howard Building Corp. the general…
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One of 2013’s major deals was the offer and eventual city acceptance of Hughes Marino to represent the city of San Diego for free in its downtown lease and sales transactions last spring. Former Mayor Jerry Sanders had rejected Jason Hughes of Hughes Marino’s initial offer and kept Cassidy Turley as the city’s broker of record, but former Mayor Bob…
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As an eighth-grader in his hometown of San Mateo, Jason Hughes was paired up with a local commercial real estate broker for “Take a Kid to Work Day.” The experience turned out to be a life-changer for the young man of modest means, starting him on a path to a highly successful career. Today, he is president and CEO of…
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When Motorola Mobility lined up a Silicon Valley candidate a few months ago for a VP-level role, the phone maker was hopeful he’d accept. After all, the company offered the chance to develop products at a subsidiary of Google Inc. The engineer declined. His reason: the prospect of relocating to Libertyville, Ill., about 35 miles from downtown Chicago, said Scott…
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As Mayor Bob Filner’s special assistant for real estate services, Jason Hughes saved San Diego City Hall roughly $20 million by renegotiating leases for its downtown offices — as well as more than half a million dollars by refusing to take any fees for his work. Although Filner — who appointed Hughes despite complaints from other downtown real estate brokers…
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Mayor Bob Filner announced Tuesday that his volunteer lease negotiator has struck a second deal that is expected to save the city $4.8 million over six years with a new lease for nearly 142,000 square feet of office space. The deal was negotiated by Hughes Marino principal Jason Hughes, who was appointed earlier this year by Filner as an unpaid…
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Nearly a decade after a fiscal crisis earned the city of San Diego the tagline “Enron by the Sea,” America’s eighth-largest city has yet to shake the nickname—or the budget woes. So when Jason Hughes offered to perform for free a service that would normally have set the cash-strapped city back about a million dollars, it seemed like a deal…
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From the outside, the Hughes Marino building on Front and Beech streets is unobtrusive. Built of aged brick and surrounded by busy city life, this office building in the heart of downtown San Diego is more like a home away from home for the family that works here. Jason Hughes, president of Hughes Marino and his son Tucker Hughes are…