311 Market Street

1982

GH&F occupies its first office space at 311 Market Street in the West End district of Downtown Dallas starting out with seven employees. The exposed steel and heavy timber framing of the floor above the mezzanine level leaves the firm’s tallest employees with multiple headaches. Only classical music is allowed from the stereo system.

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1982

Retail strip shopping centers provide the firm with its first opportunities for “place making.” Many of these designs have survived decades of shifting design paradigms and can still be found in their original form throughout the Metroplex.

1983

The firm wins its first ever design award for Denton Town Center.

1983

Karen Quick fires the temporary bookkeeper and handles all the accounting.

1983

Duncan Fulton hires an intern to manage the print shop and the night before his first day, the intern calls and informs Duncan he can’t come in to work because he doesn’t own any slacks.