Author: Jason Hughes
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Streamline Without Sacrifice: Cost-Cutting That Works
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How can we identify what is wasteful of our time and resources? This seems to be the pertinent question that is top of mind for every business leader, especially today, as efficiency and costs are under the microscope. As a company leader who also happens to work within commercial real estate, I have conversations surrounding…
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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.
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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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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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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…
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By Lou Hirsh San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has signed a letter of intent to relocate a portion of city operations to the downtown office tower at 525 B St., in a move the mayor said will save the city $3 million annually in leasing costs. The action, which is subject to final lease negotiations with building owner Hines and…
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San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has arranged a deal that is projected to save the city more than $15.7 million over the next six years, merely by shifting the public utilities and engineering departments down one block on B Street. More than 400 employees at 600 B St. will be involved in the move, which involves a sharp reduction in…