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HKS, one of the world’s top five architecture firms, will move its staff to offices in a building now called One Dallas Center, formerly known as Patriot Tower. The terms agreed upon with the building’s owner, Todd Interests, will see the firm take up 104,000 square feet of space across seven floors at the site.
The offices will serve as HKS’ international corporate headquarters, and the city is widely taking its commitment to Dallas as positive news, particularly for its market for high-quality refurbished office space.
HKS chairman and chief executive Ralph Hawkins said in a statement that the company’s leadership spent up to four years assessing potential relocation destinations around downtown Dallas and the surrounding county. Hawkins explained that despite incentives from other locations, Dallas was the right place for HKS Inc. to headquarter.
“We decided to continue to support the city of Dallas, as we have for the past 73 years,” he said.
Plans now put HKS on track to move into the central Dallas offices in May 2013, after a fit-out process is complete. The building and the offices are being revamped, in part, with high levels of energy efficiency and sustainability in mind.
“Our goal is to create a meaningful and inspiring place that reflects our commitment to our people, our communities, sustainable design and our Texas heritage,” said Hawkins.
HKS has nearly 1,000 employees and 30 office locations worldwide. It has been behind hundreds of development efforts globally, including those that created the Dallas Cowboys American football stadium and the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in 1996.
Editor’s notes: As of August 2024, HKS listed 350 N Saint Paul Street as its Dallas office on its corporate website.
As of October 2026, HKS continued to list 350 N Saint Paul Street as its Dallas office and headquarters.
In March 2026, Fast Company named HKS the number 1 Most Innovative Architecture Firm and ranked it number 31 on the 2026 World’s Most Innovative Companies list.
The firm’s work on Astra Tower in Salt Lake City, a residential high-rise designed to address one of the city’s most urgent public health challenges, drove the recognition.