Atlanta
Jan 30, 2025
Hines to bring mixed-use to former Bartow County wildlife refuge
Georgia’s negotiations to buy the land it had leased from the Neel family for decades broke down in 2023
Jeffrey Hines
Hines grew the office development firm founded by his father in 1957 into a global company with $90 billion in assets under management in 2024.
He diversified into large-scale master planned communities and major land acquisitions. The firm has done major multifamily and mixed-use transactions, including the $430 million purchase of Coral Gables Station in Florida in 2022. It sold 11 master-planned communities in Texas to Starwood Capital Group for $800 million in 2025. The company has also invested in biotechnology real estate, including the development of Levit Green in Houston as well as industrial logistics properties and self-storage.
Before the pandemic, Hines was working on a flexible workspace platform called The Square, in response to changing office trends. Meanwhile, the firm is still an office developer and investor. Hines won a contract in October 2025 to redevelop the site of the William P. Hobby Jr. State Office Building in Austin, which could be a megadevelopment with multiple towers.
Hines moved its headquarters into its own Houston development, Texas Tower at 845 Texas Avenue, in 2021.
— Rachel Stone
