The Strip Center Era

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.

1983

The firm hires designer David Farrell away from The Oglesby Group.