Author: Jason Hughes
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How We Strive to Become a Category of One Company
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When we founded Hughes Marino 14 years ago, we had already spent 20+ years in the commercial real estate industry and recognized that there had to be a better way to help companies with their space. This realization led us to another question: If we could reimagine our own industry, what would it look like?…
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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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Looking back on 2015, I couldn’t be more proud of all that we’ve accomplished as a company. To cap off a successful year of expansion, accolades, and high-fives all around, SD Metro named Hughes Marino one of San Diego’s Most Admired Companies for 2015.
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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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For business owners, finding new office space is typically exciting and simultaneously overwhelming. Whether youÔÇÖre looking to open your doors for the first time, youÔÇÖre growing and need to expand, or youÔÇÖre even considering buying your own property, there are countless items that will need to be given serious consideration. But none is more important than selecting the right broker…
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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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It’s interesting looking back at the commercial real estate brokerage industry over the last 25 years. Brokerage is a fantastic business, offering incredible financial opportunities and work independence for aspiring entrepreneurial-minded real estate strategists. But it also comes with high risk for those not willing to innovate and evolve.
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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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Later this month the International Property Measurement Standards Coalition is scheduled to announce a single measurement system for the global office market. Theoretically, this will combat discrepancies in the ways that office space is measured, and level the playing field for landlords and tenants. Sounds great, right?
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ThereÔÇÖs been a lot of hype surrounding open office space for the past few years. Some claim that the borderless workspaces often favored by tech-companies are destined to become the wave of the future. In fact, the largest commercial real estate company in the world has been touting an office space revolution, where open benches throughout all of their remodeled…