Kansas City, Mo. – March 19, 2025: Mark Coulter, an attorney with Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, P.C., recently was featured in the Kansas City Business Journal as one of the publication’s “20 to Know” in professional services – LEGAL.
Mark is an attorney with significant experience in public law, economic development, government affairs, transportation, and public-private partnerships (P3). His recent accomplishments include assisting clients Molzer Development, Cardinal Crest and Free Heel Capital with securing economic development incentives for the $37.6 million conversion of the historic Aladdin Hotel in downtown Kansas City. He regularly is requested to participate in industry panels to share insights on public law and finance. Before joining the firm, Mark served as general counsel for Port KC for more than a decade and successfully worked on more than $26 billion in public private projects which utilized a myriad of economic development incentives.
In addition to his contributions to these and other economic development projects in Kansas City, Mark serves the community in other leadership roles. He has served on the Starlight Theater Board of Directors since 2023, joining the Executive Committee last year as Chair of the Government Affairs Committee. He was appointed by then-Lt. Governor Kehoe to the Missouri Arts Council in 2022, which oversees the public funding for the Arts in the state of Missouri.
About the firm’s Public Law Practice Group: For decades, the firm’s Public Law attorneys have represented clients and local governments in many high-profile and successful commercial, residential and mixed-use projects. The firm’s attorneys assist clients in obtaining approval of land use entitlements, changes in zoning and economic development incentives. Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes attorneys offer insight on local governments approvals based on prior public service experience of several attorneys and through experience working closely with staff and officials to develop collaborative solutions over many years. Click to view a project map of work the firm has completed.
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Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes offers highly skilled lawyers in many practice areas with vast real world experience. Our clients benefit from blue-ribbon talent unencumbered by mega firm business models.
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