September 25, 2024

Today's Featured News

Baker Barrios Architects Acquires Parker-Torres Design

Hospitality Design



From left to right: Tim Baker, co-founder and CEO, Baker Barrios Architects; Barbara Parker, co-founder, Parker Torres Design; and Miriam Torres, co-founder, Parker Torres Design.


Over the past decade, Taylor Johnson client Baker Barrios Architects has focused its strategic mission on expansion from Central Florida’s largest architecture firm into a nationally recognized company, with an active portfolio encompassing nearly every market sector. Part of that strategy has been the public relations and social media plans developed and executed by the TJ team. So, when Baker Barrios co-founder and CEO Tim Baker told us about the firm’s latest big move – the acquisition of Parker-Torres Design, a leading luxury hospitality firm in Boston – we were very excited to spread the word to key media such as Hospitality Design, the first to break the news with this feature on the acquisition and future plans for the Parker-Torres/Baker Barrios partnership. We look forward to telling the story of Parker-Torres, and sharing the firm’s impressive portfolio with the media and through the firms’ social channels.




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Thursday, September 26, 2024


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