Author: John Jarvis
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Horses, Wolves, Scouts and Seals
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It is my pleasure to serve on the Board of Advisors for YMCA Overnight Camps, where we oversee three great year-round resident camps: Camp Surf, Camp Marston and Raintree Ranch. It was in a conversation about Raintree Ranch, a camp where kids learn to ride and care for horses, where I learned something interesting. A…
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We gathered on a Wednesday morning at the Pacific Northwest Branch of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Seven students and two instructors all meeting for the first time with plans to spend a week together living on Easton Glacier, learning the skills for safely navigating, climbing and, hopefully, summiting Mt. Baker’s ice and snow. We didn’t interview for this…
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As a commercial real estate broker, sometimes I feel like I am haggling over pennies. When rental rates are quoted on a monthly basis, we can be negotiating for days over $.05 per square foot! Are we crazy? Is this sheer lunacy? It sure doesn’t sound like a lot of money when it is put in these terms. But it…
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I sat down for a Q&A with the Hughes Marino team that helped the Center for Creative Leadership realize its vision for an innovative and inspiring new campus in Torrey Pines. Read what Senior Vice President John Jarvis, Construction Management Division President Dean Petersen, and Project Manager Zane Keith had to say about this cool new facility.
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This past Monday morning I didn’t go into work. Instead, I unzipped my tent and stepped out into unfamiliar surroundings in the upper Roaring Fork in the Popo Agie Wilderness in the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming. It was cold and raining as I lit the WhisperLite stove to boil water to start the day.
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On Wednesday October 8, Hughes Marino opened its doors to the Georgetown Club of San Diego for a special event featuring Georgetown alumna and celebrity chef Melissa d’Arabian.
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Our business is built on relationships, and quality relationships are built on trust. So how do we earn someone’s trust? Not by bartering favors. A transactional relationship is based on an expectation that a favor will be returned in kind. Quid pro quo. I scratch your back and you scratch mine. In this model, if I don’t think you are…
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Words have power. Words allow us to interact, to communicate our ideas, to share our passions. What’s more, with the words that we choose we actually create our reality. Until the moment we speak we are blank slates, pure potential, and loaded with the possibility of things to come. When we speak we begin to realize that potential, and our…
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Hughes Marino SVP John Jarvis appeared on KUSI’s Good Morning San Diego with local artists Inocente and Jorge Narvaez to promote an Evening of Art and Inspiration, an event hosted by Hughes Marino to benefit Casa Cornelia Law Center and its work on behalf of San Diego’s most vulnerable women and children.
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The UTC office submarket totals 7,680,000 million square feet, encompassing some of the highest quality office space in San Diego County. The commercial leasing fundamentals for UTC have improved dramatically over the last two years as the economy has driven a broader commercial real estate recovery, and Class A space has led the recovery in the region.
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The recent trend in San Diego County showing movement toward Class B office space and rebounding rents looks to have some stamina, according to local experts. At a roundtable discussion organized by the Daily Transcript, commercial real estate executives concluded that signs of a push toward value in Class B space mean positive activity for the San Diego market.