Commercial Real Estate Testimonials

Hughes Marino CM was key to the realization of our 50,000-square-foot facility. Their innovative approach and first-class expertise enabled a highly complex project to run beautifully and efficiently. The New Children’s Museum and hundreds of thousands of San Diego families thank Hughes Marino for making our home a reality.

Hughes Marino was instrumental in finding our new office and negotiating a great lease. As a nonprofit organization, we are limited by a tight budget and specific needs in terms storage space and geographic location. Hughes Marino was incredibly helpful throughout the entire process and we could not be happier with our new office.

Hughes Marino has been a great partner for our company. They are a full-service organization. They helped us with construction to make the space totally suitable for our needs. They’re the best tenant representation around.

Hughes Marino stepped into a very challenging timeline and negotiating position and were still able to achieve meaningful improvements and necessary modifications to the terms of our lease renewal. They did so in a manner that was professional, practical, and focused. We would definitely work with Hughes Marino again.

Hughes Marino helped achieve more than I anticipated was even possible. Their understanding of the market, creative approach and persistence helped us renegotiate a lease renewal that saved us a move to another site and saved us considerable expense. And, even better, their services were paid for by our landlord. I would recommend Hughes Marino to anyone leasing office or lab space in the San Diego area.

I have worked with their team twice and both yielded outstanding results. They are incredibly knowledgeable about the San Diego, and in our case La Jolla, commercial real estate market and were able to secure us two extremely attractive locations/leases in almost no time and nearly no hassle. Clearly they have the pulse on this space and have the relationships to make things happen quickly and effectively.

Commercial real estate representation is about ethics, domain knowledge and concerns for what is best for the client. The firm of Hughes Marino was founded by some of the most experienced and trustworthy tenant representative commercial real estate brokers in Southern California. They have built a team with unparalleled ethics, energy, attention to detail and domain knowledge. Hughes Marino has represented several of the companies I have founded in the San Diego region, including Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:PSMI). As important as that was for the growth of my ventures through a partnership I established with the principals over 20 years ago, it pales in comparison to what they have contributed to the creation and sustainability of the most important program in the Southern California innovation economy, the EvoNexus technology & life science incubator. The Hughes Marino team represents many of the early stage ventures in the EvoNexus portfolio and do so with the venture’s goals and growth strategy top of mind. EvoNexus is fortunate to have Hughes Marino as a strategic partner.

I have worked with the Hughes Marino team for over ten years, their knowledge of the San Diego office space market is extraordinary. They know all the players, and because they do so many deals and because of their depth of understanding of the San Diego market, I think Hughes Marino is able to help every tenant get the best deal possible.

Covario and I highly recommend the team at Hughes Marino. We have leveraged them twice as tenant reps and both times they got us the space we wanted at a great price with all the bells and whistles thrown in appropriately. They are absolute experts at helping tenants negotiate leases and find great spaces.

We had an amazing experience working with the Hughes Marino team on LUXE Travel Management’s one-of-a-kind corporate headquarters relocation. The recommendations that Hughes Marino provided allowed our over-the-top dream of putting an airplane in an office building to become a reality and I’m confident no one else could have done the job. They expertly guided us through a complicated process and delivered a result that helped us save costs, avoid unexpected problems and ultimately, created an office environment that enhanced our company culture setting us up for future success. I strongly recommend Hughes Marino to others and look forward to working with them again when we have future needs.

The Hughes Marino team is composed of talented real estate negotiators, strategists, and advisors. They understand the unique facility and business requirements of tenants in the aerospace and defense industry. We hired Hughes Marino to assist Spaceflight in evaluating the relocation of two key locations. The goal was to secure a single, expanded facility that that could house both our office and, mechanically complex, R&D side of the business; not an easy task in this market. They did just that while incorporating flexibility into the lease and minimizing out of pocket expenses. I would strongly recommend Hughes Marino to any company with specialized production and expansion requirements.

My working relationship with Hughes Marino has lasted almost three decades, where I was CEO of two companies and now as a board member of others. Hughes Marino supported our executive team with all of our real estate initiatives, from the strategic and conceptual through the execution. This included our multiple headquarters relocations and expansions, and expansions, relocations and lease renewals of our mission critical R&D labs and validated clean room operations. Whether it be a review of our operating expenses or the expansion of our 200,000 SF site, I have implicit trust in their counsel, recommendations and ability to execute on behalf of the companies that I have led and am involved with.