Kenneth H. Hughes
Since 1983,Hughes’ companies have developed numerous projects in the Southwest and have consulted on several major projects in Mexico. The area of emphasis for Hughes has been large, inner-city mixed-use developments containing loft apartments, office, retail and entertainment uses. Current developments also include a single-family infill urban neighborhood and mid-rise and high-rise residential condominiums.
Hughes has numerous design awards honoring various projects. Among them are:
ICSC Certificate of Merit award for Pavilion Saks Fifth Avenue, Houston
Texas Society of Architects Honor Award for Eton Square, Tulsa, Oklahoma
American Society of Landscape Architects Award for Commerce Garden, Dallas
Greater Dallas Planning Council design award for Mockingbird Station, Dallas
Preservation Dallas Preservation Achievement Award, Mockingbird Station, Dallas
American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award for the Dallas Sustainable District, Dallas, City of Dallas, Urban Design Award for the Quadrangle mixed-use project, Dallas American Institute of Architects Honor Award, Mockingbird Station, Dallas American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Transit Oriented Development Monitor Magazine’s Centers of Excellence award for the Plaza at University Park and Pavilion Saks Fifth Avenue Urban Land Institute 2006 Award for Excellence for Mockingbird Bird Station as one of the top 40 buildings in the world.
Transit-oriented development has been one of the company’s interests in recent years. Mockingbird Station represents that development type in a major way. It currently includes a luxury, 211-unit loft apartment component built atop one of four retail buildings, 170,000 square feet of office, 200,000 square feet of shopping/entertainment and 1,600 structured, underground and surface parking spaces. The project is the first in Texas to be located directly atop a light rail station.
Hughes began his career with the Henry S. Miller Company in Dallas, Texas. With the company for fifteen years, he eventually became Executive Vice-President and a member of the board of directors. He attended The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture and Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. He is a member of and serves in a leadership capacity in several professional and civic organizations. In Washington, D.C., he has been a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute and Chairman of The Dollars and Centers of Shopping Centers, ULI. He currently is on the Policy and Practice Committee of the ULI and is a Governor of the Institute. He also has served on the Board of Directors of the Real Estate Council in Dallas and has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Cox School of Business and the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. He has served as a board member of Theatre Three, a respected local repertory company and provided the match funding for the current theatre building. He currently serves on and is a Life Member of the Advisory Council of the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture He also served for three years on the Mayor of Dallas’ Inside the Loop Committee for the rebuilding of downtown Dallas. He is a continuing guest lecturer on urban housing and mixed-use development with the Real Estate Academic Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In Dallas he is also serving on the Construction Management Committee and the Landscape Design Committee of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts a $250 million opera house and theatre project slated for construction beginning in 2006.
