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Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, P.C.
4510 Belleview Avenue, Suite 300
Kansas City, Missouri 64111

Direct: (816) 502-4727
Main: (816) 753-9200
Fax: (816) 753-9201

Email: mbryant@rousepc.com
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Bar & Court Admissions

Missouri, 1975

Education

  • University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, J.D., 1975
  • Central Missouri University, B.S., 1972

Experience

Mark is recognized as among the best land use and public law attorneys in the Kansas City metropolitan area. He is engaged by large retailers, public utility companies and real estate developers to obtain the land use approvals and entitlements they need to conduct business. Mark has represented high-profile, controversial clients seeking variances, special use permits, zoning changes, annexation, eminent domain, and redevelopment incentives in Missouri and Kansas. He has organized numerous community development corporations in connection with retail shopping centers and multi-family housing projects financed with low income housing tax credits.  As a former member of the City Council in Kansas City, Missouri, Mark’s experience with  the codes that affect real estate development give him an edge to help developers and public agencies.

See what Economic Development Incentives, Government Relations, Land Use & Zoning, Real Estate, and Public Law projects Mark has helped complete on our Project Map.

Areas of Practice

Activities and Memberships

  • The Missouri Bar
  • Jackson County Bar Association (Missouri)
  • The National Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Tax Increment Financing Commission-Kansas City, Former Member
  • Land Clearance for Redevelopment Corporation-Kansas City, Former Member
  • Economic Development Corporation-Kansas City, Former Member
  • Onyx Development Corporation-Kansas City, Former Executive Director
  • Friends of the Kansas City Zoo, Former Secretary and member of the Executive Committee
  • Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Former President, Board of Directors
  • City Council in Kansas City, Missouri, Former Member

Honors and Recognition

  • Recipient of 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • Recipient, Thomas Deacy Trial Award
  • Selected Super Lawyer, Missouri
  • Received highest attorney rating from Martindale-Hubbell – AV Preeminent