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Darrell Vange

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1991-Present  President, Ravenhurst Development, Seattle, WA.

2001-2002      Regional Vice President, Cedarwood Development, Inc., Seattle, WA.

1988-1991       Senior Vice President and General Manager, Pan Pacific Development, Seattle, WA .

1985-1988       Development Director, The Rouse Company, Columbia, MD and Seattle, WA.

1981-1984       Vice President, Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, Los Angeles, CA.

1979-1981       Vice President, Operations, Sotheby Parke Bernet,  New York, NY.

1978-1979       Management Consultant, Price Waterhouse & Co., Seattle, WA.

1976-1978       MBA, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.

1974-1976       Systems Supervisor, H.S. Wright Construction Co., Seattle, WA

1970-1974       BA, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

1991-Present     RAVENHURST DEVELOPMENT, INC, Seattle, WA
                       
President and owner of this development management and real estate consulting company.  Business areas include shopping center development, commercial development consulting and project management, municipal/economic development consulting and transit-oriented development (TOD) consulting.  Representative projects include a 26-acre commercial land development in Puyallup, pre-development design and feasibility for $30 million expansion to Everett Mall, downtown revitalization programs for Oak Harbor and Port Angeles, and design guidance, development feasibility and public/private negotiations for various regional transit agencies.

2001-2002       CEDARWOOD DEVELOPMENT, INC, Seattle, WA

Regional Vice President for a national commercial development company.  Opened the Seattle office, engaged staff and consultants for a forty-store rollout for a national retail chain.  Identified twenty viable sites in Puget Sound area, negotiated purchase agreements, prepared conceptual plans and detailed budgets, and negotiated entitlements for each project.  Supervised in-house staff, brokers, architects, contractors and consultants.  Retailer unexpectedly pulled out of market in early 2002 and office was summarily closed.

1988-1991       PAN PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Seattle, WA

Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Pacific Northwest Region of this Canadian shopping center development company.  Started the Seattle office with full responsibility for identification, acquisition, design, construction, leasing and operation of all projects in the region, along with selection and training of all staff and creation of all necessary management controls and systems.  The development portfolio grew to include two regional malls and six community shopping centers, ranging in size from $10 to $115 million.  In a period of three years, the office developed 1,230,000 sf of retail properties. The office had a staff of 20 people, and managed $130 million in assets and $40 million in equity.

1985-1988       THE ROUSE COMPANY, Seattle, WA

Development Director of this national retail development company.  Responsible for design, construction and leasing of Westlake Center, a $100 million retail and office project in downtown Seattle.  Managed pre-development and feasibility phases of three other mall expansions; authored and presented development proposals for two major urban projects. 

1981-1984       LOS ANGELES OLYMPIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, Los  Angeles, CA

Vice President - Planning and Control, for the private business entity created to stage the 1984 Summer Olympic Games.  Diverse responsibilities included planning and budgeting for Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Award Ceremonies; organizing Venue Development department and creating prototype venue planning procedures and guidelines; planning Olympic operations at Track and Field, Boxing, Swimming and Rowing venues; and operating Exposition Park, the site of the main stadium complex and focal point of the Games during the summer of 1984.

1979-1981       SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET, New York, NY

Vice President - Operations, for the world's largest fine arts auction house.  Hired as a project manager for the development of a new auction facility in Manhattan, with responsibility for design, construction and moving 400 employees and $150 million in art into the new facility.  After completing the $16 million project on time and on budget, continued as VP Operations for the new auction complex.

EDUCATION:

MBA from Harvard Business School (1978).  Academic emphasis in Finance and Small Business Development.  First year Honors; tutor in Organization Behavior.

BA from Dartmouth College (1974).  Major in Government, minor in Economics; dormitory chairman, freshman counselor.

OTHER INFORMATION:

Seattle Design Review Board, CBD District 1998-2001

Former member Board of Directors, Woodland Park Zoo Society
Former member Board of Directors, Seattle Aquarium Society

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