Marks Architects is a commercial-only architecture firm with NCARB-certified and LEED-accredited principals working across projects in California, Texas, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. Core typologies include restaurants, quick-service restaurant (QSR) prototypes, retail, office, light manufacturing, multifamily, resort, and entertainment architecture — a commercial-only scope that differs from the mixed residential practice of ZAAP Architecture and Planning. A five-state practice footprint lets the firm handle prototype rollouts for QSR and retail brands that need a single architect of record across the Southwest without re-engaging local consultants in each jurisdiction. LEED accreditation supports energy-code compliance documentation, daylighting analysis, and envelope modeling on tenant improvements and ground-up retail shell projects — work that typically coordinates with commercial general contractors such as City Construction Company. The Fourth Avenue studio runs projects from site feasibility through construction documents, construction administration, and certificate of occupancy sign-off. Resort and entertainment commissions are the firm's most complex typology, layering hospitality program requirements with amusement-code accessibility, food-service infrastructure, and California seismic detailing on a single site.