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GERALD D. HINES
Pages 202-209

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... At age 14 Gerry worked parttime in the plant, chipping billets, hammering steel bars into small pieces, and quickly learning that this kind of hard, manual labor was not in his future. "I saw the inside of that steel mill, and I said, ‘There is no way I want to work here for my career,'" Hines told his biographer, Mark Seal.1 "So, you Seal M
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From page 204...
... It drew Texas's first Neiman Marcus department store outside of Dallas. Hines insisted that the shopping center include an ice skating rink despite the added costs; he believed, cor rectly, that it would draw visitors and increase basement floor rental rates.
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From page 205...
... According to Hines, "Winning the opportunity to build One Shell Plaza in downtown Houston almost five decades ago charted the course for our firm." • Pennzoil Place: The project's distinctive 36-story, twin trapezoidal towers were built with celebrated architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee and opened in 1975. Pennzoil Place was named Building of the Year by New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who added, "It successfully marries art and architecture and the business of investment construction." These successes allowed Hines to expand his company to markets in the rest of the United States and throughout the world.
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From page 206...
... Around the country, they designed and built the 23-story 580 California Street and 48-story 101 California Street buildings in San Francisco, the 34-story building at 53rd and Third in Manhattan (nicknamed the "Lipstick Building" because of its curving, elliptical exterior and tapered form) , the 25-story 500 Boylston Street building in Boston, the 45-story Comerica Tower in Detroit, and the 50-story Wells Fargo Center in Denver, among other structures.
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From page 207...
... potential clients would want to identify with. He put Houston on the map in terms of architecture by his imaginativeness and his business discipline in understanding how he could work with the best architects of the world within the economic constraints of real estate development and construction." In addition to developing projects with the world's top architects, Hines's projects are recognized by the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Green Building Council, Global Green USA, and other leading environmental organizations.
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From page 208...
... , sons Jeffrey and Trevor, daughters Jennifer Hines Robertson and Serena Hines, 15 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Jeffrey joined the firm in 1981 as an assistant project manager; he was named president in 1990 and chair and CEO in 2020.
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