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To maximise occupancy rates in its office lets, property investor Hines is on a mission to modernise the workplace. Here, the family firm’s co-CEO tells us why a focus on mixed-use developments will transform the office-goer’s everyday experience.
When monocle walks into the lobby of Texas Tower, the pleasant scent of sandalwood and primrose wafts through the air. The Italian-marble floors and white coffee tables suggest a well-appointed living room – albeit one with numerous power outlets and task lighting at the ready. Well-dressed professionals sit and chat in richly upholstered chairs, before heading further up to one of the downtown Houston office building’s 47 storeys.
Designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners, the building, which opened in 2021, is 81 per cent leased at the time of our…
