Qualifications 
37 years architecture, planning and development experience.

Education
 Pasadena City College,
University of California, Los Angeles

Mark Wareham
Director of Planning and Entitlements

With thirty-seven years of experience in architecture, planning and development, Mark Wareham is a highly skilled manager of commercial, residential and mixed-use developments.  His experience includes acting as liaison between development teams, planning/design teams, community groups and governing agencies to forge public/private partnerships.

Mr. Wareham’s formal architectural education combined study and apprenticeship under the tutelage of architects George Vernon Russell, FAIA and William L. Pereira, FAIA.  In a five-year overseas assignment with William L. Pereira & Associates, he managed the planning, design and construction of the Doha Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center, which is the cornerstone of New District of Doha located in the southern region of the Arabian Gulf.

Thereafter, Mr. Wareham served for ten years as Vice President of Special Projects at the architectural firm of Vito Cetta Architects in Santa Monica, California where he directed the planning and design of a number of award-winning commercial, retail, mixed-use and multifamily residential developments.

Since 1996 Mr. Wareham has been KCMS Principal-in-Charge of RiverPark, a 700-acre master planned community entitled for 2,805 residential units and up to 2.4 million square feet of mixed-use office, residential, retail and themed entertainment.  Land acquisition, planning, entitlement and implementation agreements involved a complex land assembly, restructuring of a failed bond issue, reclamation of an abandoned gravel mining operation and negotiations to deliver a variety of public facilities by way of public/private partnerships with City, County, Federal, State agencies and Rio School District.  Mr. Wareham assembled and managed the RiverPark Planning/Entitlement Team thereafter assembling and managing the planning, design, construction and CFD/State funding of Rio Del Mar Elementary and Rio Vista Middle Schools, Joint-Use City/County Fire Station, and the County Emergency Maintenance Facilities on a 20-acre education campus.