Trusted Owner’s Representative
for Every Phase of Development.
New York City represents a unique urban context with a relentless demand for innovative real estate development. The city’s complex landscape of regulations, technical design, and construction processes are extremely difficult – if not nearly impossible – to navigate without substantial reliance on specialized consultants and advisors. Even established developers depend heavily on external expertise to achieve project success. For new to the game developers and property owners, this challenge is even more acute.
Many new developers operate at a critical disadvantage, lacking the resources to secure the specialized services necessary to compete effectively. Whist Pond can offer a more agile and responsive advisory service, tailored to strategic development tasks in support of owners and developers at every phase of development. When a development task requires, Whist Pond teams with accomplished and seasoned professionals with strategic expertise to support each specific project need through NYC.CRED (Collective for Real Estate Development).
Mark Dwyer
As Founder & Principal at Whist Pond Development Advisory, I bring over two decades of hands-on real estate experience, primarily in the New York City market, working as a Licensed Architect, in-house project executive and owner’s representative on the development side. I have managed over $2.5B USD in ground-up residential and commercial developments and have worked as a private advisor for owners and developers on real estate strategy, project development, and risk assessment.
As a Project Executive for over a decade with Two Trees Management LLC in Brooklyn NYC, my work focused on multifamily residential and adaptive reuse projects with an emphasis on sustainable redevelopment.
Most notably on the management of 300 Ashland in downtown Brooklyn and the redevelopment of the Domino Sugar Campus in Williamsburg Brooklyn. The Domino campus includes ground up residential towers, including, 325 Kent Ave, One South First Street and One Domino Square totaling nearly 1,500 new (market rate and affordable) housing units and the adaptive reuse of the landmarked 1880s Domino Sugar Refinery into creative tech space. I specialize in residential and commercial use types with concentration on advanced facade technologies and adaptive reuse projects.
Prior to working with Two Trees Management, I was an Associate at the office of TEN Arquitectos in New York City, leading the design team on large architectural projects, including the 1.3M sqft Mercedes House project in Hell’s Kitchen. I have taught lecture courses in architectural and real estate at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard’s GSD and in the Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) program at INSTITUTO EMPRESA (IE)University.
I hold a Professional Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design from Ball State University and a Master of Architecture and Urban Design with distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. I am a licensed Architect in the State of New York and LEED Accredited Professional.