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Pam Goode

Pam has recently completed affordable multi-family housing projects for formerly homeless veterans in Mountain View and in Colma, California. She has worked on senior affordable housing in Marin and is currently working on family affordable housing projects throughout the Bay. Pam has focused on sustainability […]

Elitsa Shepherd

Elitsa works closely with clients, consultants, engineers and city staff to ensure that projects meet the needs of the owner, the future residents, the city and the neighbors. She oversees projects from initial conception to completed construction. Elitsa is the project architect of Vivalon Healthy […]

Benjamin Chuaqui

Licensed in California. Ben joined VMWP in 2002 and became a Partner of the firm in 2021. He holds master degrees in both Architecture and in City Planning from UC Berkeley. Prior to attending graduate school, Ben was an accomplished classical pianist, earning an undergraduate degree in […]

Michael Kloefkorn

Licenced in CO. As one of the Associate Principals at VMWP, Mr. Kloefkorn brings a mixture of experience in California, Colorado and Australia including furniture, interior design, commercial/retail, mixed-use, residential, multi-family residential, adaptive reuse and construction. He joined VMWP in 1998 and relocated to Colorado in […]

Karen Murray

As a partner at Van Meter Williams Pollack, Karen provides firmwide leadership and direction for projects ranging in scale from the neighborhood to the individual building. Her unique blend of architecture and urban design skills allows her to act as a bridge between the two […]

Fred Pollack

As a partner and founder of Van Meter Williams Pollack, Fred for over two decades has worked at the forefront of mixed-use pedestrian and transit-oriented planning and urban design. His focus as a leader in green and sustainable architecture has been designing urban infill on […]

Rick Williams

A partner and founder of Van Meter Williams Pollack, Rick Williams is a leader in urban design and transit-oriented development. Rick excels at using his architectural development background--understanding building types and the architectural realm--to inform urban design projects. The scale of his work ranges from […]

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