Author: Star Hughes-Gorup
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Downtown San Diego: A New Frontier for SoCal Life Science?
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Once brimming with the energy of tech startups, marketing agencies and professional service firms—as well as a thriving retail, dining, arts, theater and music scene—Downtown San Diego has a long way to go to achieve its pre-pandemic vitality. Over the past year and half, many downtown companies moved out of tens of thousands of square…
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If you’ve ever been to a Padres game, chances are you’ve seen Bumble Bee Seafoods’ amazing headquarters in the outfield of Petco Park inside the historical Showley Brothers Candy Factory Building. It might be the coolest location–and building, for that matter–in all of San Diego!
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CPC Strategy has been recognized as one of the best places to work in the country–so it’s no surprise that their office in downtown San Diego is amazing too! CPC Strategy recently made Entrepreneur’s annual list of the nation’s top company cultures (named number 7 in the medium-sized companies category). As soon as you see their space and meet their…
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NoonanLance’s new office on the top floor of the historic Pack Lofts building in Downtown San Diego’s East Village is truly one-of-a-kind, and arguably the most unique law office we’ve ever seen!
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When most people think about a general contractor’s office, they think construction trailers, hardhats, and minimalist design. Back’s Construction’s headquarters in Little Italy couldn’t be further from that image (though they do have plenty of hardhats)!
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Smashtech, a marketing and consumer products company with a largely millennial workforce, has the ultimate creative office. With exposed open ceilings, hardwood floors, and amazing natural light, it’s no wonder that Smashtech is ranked the #1 rated place to work in San Diego on Glassdoor and was dubbed one of the Best Places to Work by the San Diego Business…
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LoanHero’s new office on the 14th floor of Symphony Towers is high-end, eclectic, homey, and so.much.fun. The space has an open floor plan with four private offices/break-out rooms and a conference room, all designed with glass storefronts to let as much natural light flood through the space as possible (and provide for easy communication among team members!).
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As employee health and wellness is brought to the forefront of today’s workplace, alternatives for sitting at a desk for seven or more hours a day are becoming increasingly popular. Slogans like “Sitting is the new smoking,” and “Sitting is the most underrated health threat of modern time,” have only brought attention to some of our nation’s challenges of obesity,…
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Intesa Communications Group’s west coast headquarters in San Diego is nothing short of creative, lofty, and inspiring. The PR, government relations, and digital firm occupies the Design Center on 5th Avenue, which was built in 1949 and designed by world-renowned mid-century architect, Lloyd Ruocco. Nestled into the trees in Hillcrest –and surrounded by some of the most popular restaurants in…
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As an exclusively tenant-focused commercial real estate broker, I get asked almost daily what makes a landlord a good landlord, and whether it really matters to a tenant if they lease space from a good landlord versus to a bad one.
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We often hear the phrases “smart cities” and “smart buildings” – but what do they really mean? And what does it take to be the smartest building in the world?