Team

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The two founding members of Pelican Properties are John Tillotson, Chief Executive Officer and Daniel Howse, Chief Financial Officer. Richard Hamm joined Pelican Properties as Division Manager to expand its development activities in Southern California. Steve Swanson joined Pelican Properties as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. As such, all principles of Pelican Properties substantially participate in the project visioning, pre-development, entitlement, development, and construction phases of each project.

Andrew Walcker

Principal

Andrew Walcker has been in the engineering and development space in Inland Southern California for over 23 years, recently formed Overland Development Company and joined Pelican. Andrew Walcker graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Loma Linda University. His past experiences have been as the founding principal of IW Consulting Engineers and Vice President of Engineering for Psomas, a civil engineering company. Andrew has been involved in various roles with over three billion dollars of new development in the Inland Empire. Andrew’s focus has been in the revitalization, advocacy and development of the Inland Empire, and has a unique perspective of the Inland Empire being a fourth-generation Riverside resident and business owner. Within just the City of Riverside Andrew has managed the following projects:

Led the civil engineering and survey team for the Main Street Pedestrian Mall Revitalization Project from 5th Street to 10th Street.
Established the team retained by the City to study the feasibility of a 5,000 seat Events Arena and the economic impact to the downtown core.
Retained by Riverside Transit Agency’s (RTA) to organize the community outreach program for the downtown bus shelter project, Vine Street lay over area and the RapidLink bus route along Route 1 which accounts for 23% of RTA’s County wide ridership.
Oversaw the discretionary approval phase and civil construction documents for Centerpointe Apartments on the city block between Market, First, Second and Fairmont.
Managed the entitlements and civil construction documents for the Imperial Hardware Lofts and 9th & Main project for Ratkovich Properties.
Coordinate the development project and entitlements for Hampton Inn and Home 2 Suites with an associated parking garage on the corner of 5th Street and Market Street. 140 keys for the Hampton Inn and 105 keys for the Home 2 Suites.
On the winning team for the Historic Fire Station and Lot 27 and managing the design and entitlement of the Marriot AC mixed-use project at this site.
On the team retained by UC Riverside to create the Physical Master Plan, which is an internal and community driven exercise to identify those areas key to the future development of the campus.

Richard Hamm

Principal

Richard Hamm has over thirty plus years of real estate development and home building experience in mixed-use infill projects, apartments, large scale master planned communities and big box industrial. For the last ten years Richard has been a principal of Pelican Communities which focuses on mixed-use infill projects in highly desirable urban, coastal and transit locations in Southern California. Product types include vertically and horizontally integrated mixed-use buildings in podium, wrap and on grade configurations. Project locations have included downtown Huntington Beach, Old Town Tustin, the Fullerton Transit Station, downtown Oceanside, mixed use student/retail/office and market rate apartments in Riverside, and the Platinum Triangle in Anaheim.

Prior to joining Pelican Communities Mr. Hamm was Division Manager of the Los Angeles Division of Pacific Bay Homes (“PBH”). PBH was a real estate development and home building firm that was a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. While serving as Division Manager Richard developed over 4,000 homes/lots in more than two dozen locations throughout Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire. Developing the projects required site planning, product design and the advocacy and processing of numerous tentative tract maps, specific plans and associated environmental documentation as well as extensive infrastructure and grading improvements.

Mr. Hamm began his real estate development and home building career with Mission Viejo Company and Woodcrest Development in accounting, finance and project management roles after completing a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Real Estate from California Polytechnic University, Pomona. Richard’s education also includes a Light Construction and Development Management Certificate at University of California, Irvine and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.

Richard.hamm@pelicancommunities.com

Chuck Dragicevich

Principal

Chuck Dragicevich has over 40 years of experience in operations and real estate development, building over 14,000 homes. Over the past 10 years as a partner at Brooks Street, he has led in underwriting residential and apartment deals, and was the managing partner in a venture entitling and building 109-unit townhomes in Dublin, CA. He was one of two partners to underwrite and finance the purchase of the Napa Valley Wine Train. He is currently part of the strategic planning to maximize real estate and operating returns.

Prior to Brooks Street, he was a partner for 7 years with Messrs.’ Cisneros and Miramontes and executive vice president for City View. Mr. Dragicevich was head of portfolio management and sat on the City View Investment Committee. He was also Managing Director of City View Development Investors, one of the four City View investment funds. As the company grew from $40 million to $725 million, his responsibilities expanded to include 11 states in the continental U.S. Dragicevich led the funding of more than 48 projects totaling more than $2 billion in revenue. As a partner and member of City View’s strategic planning team, Dragicevich developed ongoing portfolio management techniques and spearheaded the company’s project watch list committee.

Prior to City View, Dragicevich served as a division president for Lennar Homes, one of the nation’s largest publicly held homebuilders, for more than seven years. He started the division de novo and built it to 100 staff, closing over 200 homes per year. While at Lennar Homes, Dragicevich led the company’s efforts to research and develop corporate broadband services initiatives. He was responsible for developing the company wide telecommunications strategy incorporating bundled data, audio and video relationships. His degrees are a BA in Economics from UCLA and an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from University of Southern California.

Chuck.dragicevich@pelicancommunities.com

Team

Proven Leadership You Can Trust

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