Industry veteran Shaney Mullen has joined Minneapolis, Minnesota-based holistic and multidisciplinary design firm BKV Group as development managing partner in its Dallas practice.

Mullen brings more than two decades of experience to his new role and will support BKV Group’s continued growth in the Sunbelt while also expanding the firm’s national hospitality platform.

“In addition to being an accomplished architect, Shaney is a natural leader who is proficient in team building and cultivating client relationships,” BKV Group CEO Jack Boarman said in a statement. “His experience and connections in the hospitality sector make him eminently qualified to head up our growth efforts in that area as he also contributes to other BKV projects spanning multiple property sectors.”

Most recently, Mullen was an associate principal with WDG Architecture, where he focused his efforts on client development and engagement, project acquisition, and execution—from conceptual planning through occupancy—for urban multifamily, mixed-use, and hospitality projects.

BKV said his design portfolio includes prominent developments in numerous markets, including the Marriott Nashville, a 20-story, 442-key hotel in Nashville, Tennessee; Willamette Tower, a 23-story, 343-unit mixed-use development in Portland, Oregon; and the Marriott Uptown, a 14-story, 255-key hotel in Dallas that won a LIV Hospitality Design Award in 2021.

“I’ve admired BKV Group’s unique and accomplished culture of collaboration, both with clients and internally among the firm’s practice areas, which invariably results in the successful, transformational urban projects for which the firm is so well known,” Mullen said. “I’m eager to contribute to that legacy as we pursue work in the hospitality sector and beyond.”

For more than 45 years, BKV Group has designed and delivered community-enhancing, award-winning projects across a multitude of sectors including market-rate multifamily, student living, senior housing, affordable housing, government and federal, education and library, corporate and commercial, hospitality, and mixed-use. Throughout BKV’s history, the firm has grown from a sole proprietorship into a diverse partnership with practice sites in Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and multiple cities in Vietnam.

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