Visionary Leadership

Rick Hill’s Expertise in Crafting Extraordinary Marketplaces

J. Richard (Rick) Hill delivers remarkable award-winning marketplaces by directing top-tier talent to craft exceptional destinations. With decades of extensive experience across the globe in the design, development, marketing, and branding of world class developments, Rick's expertise is unparalleled.

A Hand & Eye for Creating Iconic Destinations

Having been educated in visual arts and with an early career focused on operating and redeveloping regional malls followed by creating the nation’s first lifestyle and entertainment centers, and in recent years enhancing guest experiences in luxury resorts Rick has cultivated a discerning eye for contemporary culture, art, design, architecture, fashion, and culinary experiences in the marketplace and perfected the “Art of Marketplace Crafting™”. His extensive portfolio includes directing and programming strategies for the value enhancement of over 200 properties, with many standing as iconic landmarks in the global real estate landscape.

From Visionary to Orchestrator

Building Collaborative Teams

J. Richard Hill & Co. is not a “one stop shop.”

We do not have a suite of actors who are ready-made for the unique requirements of your property.

Our approach is to form teams of leading market experts, data scientists, cultural anthropologists, land planners, cost estimators and quantity surveyors, architects, engineers, visual artists, brokers, creative writers, illustrators, graphic designers, and more with diverse backgrounds and skills to enhance the richness of our client’s projects.

Each team is tailored to resonate with the client's vision, the project's environment, and the community's ethos, with a common belief that exceptional projects emerge from a collective brilliance.

This multidisciplinary trailblazing approach results in the creation of transformative big ideas, right sized projects, elevated customer engagement, wider catchment areas, enhanced traffic and footfall, extended visits and stays, and amplified spending – all critical elements of sustainable real estate development financial models.

The pinnacle? Optimized property values.

Our Collaborators & Team Members

“Exceptional projects emerge from collective brilliance.”

— Rick Hill // Founder & President

Pioneering Developments

  • Shaping Retail Experiences

    From Iconic Brands to National Parks

    Rick played a key role in bringing IKEA to the U.S., opening one of the nation’s first Planet Hollywood, expanding the vision of Barefoot Landing to open a 30,000 square foot House of Blues, laying the groundwork for sponsor pavilions at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, partnering with Nike to create the Great American Cross-Country Festival, crafting guest experiences for Four Seasons Punta Mita, Four Seasons Maui, and Hotel Del Coronado, and developing visitor service strategies for eleven U.S. National Parks.

  • Transforming Destinations With Brilliant Collaborators

    A Vision for Assembling International Masterminds

    In the realm of real estate, Rick Hill’s grounded legacy weaves the brilliance of customized teams research, economic, design, project management, creating lasting emblems of excellence.

    Rick’s approach has extended across the globe as evident in projects like the Wai Kai Resort, heralded as a waterfront wonder in Oahu, Hawaii; his innovative guest experience strategies for Four Seasons Punta Mita; his strategic plans for Jeddah Front, in Jeddah Saudi, Arabia; and the American Pavilion in Dubai’s Global Village.

  • Collaboration

    Expertise Meets Vision

    At the heart of Rick’s work lies a deep-seated passion: “Restoring Community in the Marketplace™”. This mission is achieved through the insights of great clients and expertise from his extensive network of consumer and real estate research and planning, design, project management, and marketing professionals.

    This approach ensures each of his projects benefits from a nuanced perspective, enriched by the best practices of leading real estate professionals and trailblazing developments from around the world.

  • Shared Visions

    Brilliant Minds — Collective Genius

    The most brilliant vision of Rick Hill, and so simple, was to source world class talent and build teams of excellence customized to the needs of a project as opposed to selling the limited talents of an all-in-house staff. Today, J. Richard Hill & Co maintains a distributed global network of award-winning talent and brilliant minds creating brilliant, cross-pollinated results.

    With each project we discover new talent, new ways, and collectively refine our team approach.