Documented connections among people, organizations, properties, projects and institutions, with source material attached.
Publicly indexed title-history sources reviewed in August 2026 show the November 2025 Lafayette Place grant-deed transfers and identify First American Title Company, but no contemporaneous purchase-money deed of trust surfaced in those public indexes. Listing …
Developer and City records connect Jack Walter, 5730 Uplander LLC, HLW International LLP and DRDS to the proposed redevelopment at 5730 Uplander Way. The project evolved from a 329-unit, eight-story 2024 concept to a current 287-unit, seven-story proposal with…
Documented project-specific relationship network for the 6201 Residences redevelopment at Fox Hills Plaza: the project website identifies REDA Residential and RCB Equities as co-developers, MVE + Partners as designer, and Burton Landscape Architecture Studio a…
Primary seller and buyer records establish the January 2021 acquisition chain for the former Sony Pictures Animation campus: H&R Real Estate Investment Trust reports selling 9050 W. Washington Boulevard on January 25, 2021 for US$165 million, and Hackman Capit…
Direct primary records document a long-running public-property redevelopment chain at 9814 Washington Boulevard. The Culver City Successor Agency and Center Theatre Group entered a 2001 disposition and development agreement; the City separately entered a 2012 …
Documented project-team relationships for the active 11281 Washington Place affordable-housing proposal. Culver City identifies Shahar Kalev / Washington Place Vista LLC as applicant information. The project's own website identifies ElevateLA as developer and …
Primary project records and Allen Matkins's own matter announcement document recurring land-use roles for partner Spencer B. Kallick and the firm across at least three distinct Culver City mixed-use redevelopments: 5757 Uplander Way, 100 Corporate Pointe, and …
Apple contracts with Lux Bus America to transport employees using the City-operated bus stop at the northwest corner of Washington and National Boulevards. An initial City temporary-use authorization expired March 6, 2024; the shuttle continued operating. An O…
This record documents a connection involving Odis Jones, Lea Eriksen, Barclays and the source material that supports it.
This record documents a connection involving Michael Hackman, Barclays, Wells Fargo and the source material that supports it.
Culver City records directly identify Bastion Development Corporation as the applicant for the Triangle Centre mixed-use project at 12727 Washington Boulevard. The project was filed in 2021, received Culver City approvals in 2022 and Los Angeles approval in 20…
Archived California State Bar material lists Hackman Capital Partners as Brent Daniel Iloulian's professional address and a Hackman-domain email. Culver City Forward corporate records place Iloulian in the organization's formation and filing history while Mich…
Councilmember Bryan 'Bubba' Fish emailed Supervisor Holly Mitchell's transportation staff about Better Overland while community outreach for Phase II was underway. Fish wrote that there could be parking loss depending on the chosen design and asked whether the…
Bryan 'Bubba' Fish contacted Los Angeles County Second District staff seeking help with Jubilo Village's 43-project-based-voucher shortfall. After County staff said the office would not support an exemption or change to LACDA policy and pointed instead to an a…
CCUSD reported that Amazon provided $35,000 in education support during a 2025 event at Linwood E. Howe Elementary School, with $10,000 directed through DonorsChoose for teacher grants and the remaining amount supporting district programs; Amazon also supplied…
CCUSD adopted a pilot in December 2025 to provide free pocket-sized fentanyl test devices to students and families. District communications confirm the Board action and Triston Ezidore's public support; contemporaneous reporting identifies DEFENT, a division o…
Culver City Unified School District selected Brookwood for a real-estate holdings study after comparing Brookwood and Cordoba. Current Rivercrest Partners materials, under the firm's later name, describe the resulting Culver City USD analysis as a review of 13…
A preserved lease package documents CCUSD property agreements involving the former Washington School site at 3430 McManus Avenue and a separate Wildwood School lease. The records include lease terms, rent adjustments, appraisal provisions, amendments and corre…
A four-year record of CCUSD discussions about honors and AP access, middle- and high-school course pathways, detracking, UC honors designation, GPA weighting, student readiness, and community communication. The source set shows policy development and disagreem…
Primary CCUSD records trace workforce-housing discussions from a 2019 employee survey and Board workshop through a 2021 private-funding proposal and 2022 debate over a Brookwood real-estate study. The documents connect housing, employee recruitment and retenti…
A direct public-private redevelopment, entitlement, and proposed long-term lease relationship concerning the City-owned 10401 Virginia Avenue property. AFHDC requested an Exclusive Negotiating Agreement in December 2023; the City approved the ENA in March 2025…
On December 1, 2025, Culver City approved a professional-services agreement with the Center for New Democratic Processes to design and conduct a civic assembly on increasing public participation in the budget process. CNDP says the selection followed a competi…
Culver City records document a recurring direct relationship with REthink Culver, LLC across separate development and property matters. At 9814 Washington Boulevard, California HCD records show that REthink's position followed a documented April-July 2022 cont…
Culver City Council Policy No. 4209 states that the City participates in the CAL-Card purchasing-card program through a State Department of General Services master services agreement with U.S. Bank and identifies U.S. Bank as the City's purchasing-card bank at…
Culver City primary records document Walker Consultants as a recurring City parking consultant since 2016. The City approved a three-year on-call agreement in 2022 with two optional one-year extensions and an annual ceiling of $100,000, amended the agreement i…
Direct City-nonprofit lease, development and funding relationship involving the Wende Museum campus. Culver City approved the Wende Creative Community Center project in 2022 and in 2024 approved a second amendment to the MOU and lease to include affordable hou…
Direct public-private youth-services relationship documented by the City of Culver City. The City's Police Reform page states that CCPD's Youth Diversion & Development program diverts eligible youths to New Earth's center before arrest and reports that 59 of 1…
Culver City selected West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation's redevelopment proposal for the City-owned 11029 Washington Boulevard property, declared the property Exempt Surplus Land for affordable housing, and directed staff to draft an Exclusive Negoti…
Public records place Frost Brown Todd attorneys, including David A. Rogers, alongside Odis Jones and Cobblestone in multiple public-private development and financing matters in different jurisdictions.
Project records place Kimley-Horn on a Cobblestone development team involving Odis Jones in Ann Arbor. Kimley-Horn separately has an existing professional-services relationship with Culver City. The Culver City vendor relationship predates Jones's tenure.
City staff negotiated a Community Workforce Agreement with the Los Angeles and Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council. On October 13, 2026, the Culver City Council authorized the City Manager to negotiate and execute the agreement. The approv…
The Culver City Chamber of Commerce's official website endorses Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin and Kimberley Griffin for Culver City Council in the November 3, 2026 election. The relationship is an explicit institutional endorsement, not an inference from shared po…
Documented crossover among Culver City Forward governance and major Culver City public or civic institutions. Thomas Small combined elected City service with compensated Culver City Forward executive leadership and later continued as a director; Michael Hackma…
City records document formation of the Culver City Public Finance Authority and identify Orrick as JPA/bond counsel, PFM as financial adviser, EY as financial-analysis consultant, and Barclays in the later direct-purchase / financing documentation.
Direct Public Finance Authority real-property negotiation concerning 12592 Washington Place. Culver City's September 14, 2026 agenda names Odis Jones and Adam Troy as PFA negotiators and Barbara Bills of WIB Holdings LLC as the other party's negotiator, with b…
The Culver City Council approved a professional-services agreement with AECOM on October 28, 2024 to prepare the Hayden Tract Specific Plan, with a not-to-exceed price of $500,000. The Council subsequently approved an additional not-to-exceed $100,000 amendmen…
The Culver City Council approved a professional-services agreement of up to $800,000 with Studio One Eleven on October 28, 2024 to prepare the Fox Hills Specific Plan. At the same meeting, the Council authorized acceptance of a separate $505,000 SCAG grant thr…
Public financing records document a 2024 refinancing of Culver Steps involving Hackman Capital Partners and Affinius Capital, with Deutsche Bank and Wells Fargo in the debt structure. SEC materials identify HC 9300 Culver LLC as the borrower entity and describ…
A documented financing-to-sale-to-municipal-negotiation chain for The Culver Steps at 9300 Culver Boulevard. SEC disclosure identifies HC 9300 Culver LLC as borrower and Hackman Capital Partners as sponsor/non-recourse carveout guarantor for a $75 million 2024…
Official Downtown Business Association and City records identify Darrel Menthe as executive director of the Culver City Downtown Business Association since 2023 and as a City Planning Commissioner appointed July 1, 2023. Its 2024 annual report additionally ide…
Culver City records identify Dmitriy Kazakov as applicant for successive condominium proposals at 4051-4055 Jackson Avenue: a two-story, 9-unit version in 2022 under the label Kazakov Design and a three-story, 15-unit version in 2026 under the label KDI Intern…
Lincoln Property Company and McCourt Partners jointly announced $132.7 million in Bank OZK construction financing for ElevenOneEleven at 11111 Jefferson Boulevard, arranged by Berkadia representatives Lou Friedel and Keith Rosso. KFA Architecture is architect …
Direct sources document three distinct roles that create a cross-city institutional bridge: Ellis Raskin was elected to the Santa Monica City Council in 2024; the 2025 Court of Appeal opinion names him and Hanson Bridgett as counsel for Friends and Families fo…
Direct public-private redevelopment relationship documented by Carson records. Faring Capital entered an option agreement with the Carson Reclamation Authority for Cells 3, 4, and 5 of the former Cal-Compact landfill in December 2020, then assigned the rights …
Freddy Puza's September 2020 Culver City Catalyst essay records a cluster of public-safety positions: support for the Culver City Action Network demand to cut the police budget by 50 percent; support for alternative nonviolent public-safety responses; use of C…
Two preserved Form 460 filings establish direct 2026 campaign-finance links among Culver City Mayor Freddy/Fred Puza and CCUSD Board members Stephanie Loredo and Brian Guerrero. Puza contributed to both school-board committees, while Loredo and Guerrero made r…
Three primary documents show an evolution from public coalition advocacy to litigation around the MOVE Culver City configuration. The April 2023 attorney letter was submitted for Friends of MOVE Culver City and attached a coalition letter naming 32 participati…
Primary seller and buyer records establish the transfer of the Sony Pictures Animation Campus in January 2021. H&R Real Estate Investment Trust reports selling its 172,039-square-foot Culver City office property at 9050 W. Washington Boulevard on January 25, 2…
A direct property-to-entitlement chain links Hackman Capital Partners to a previously unindexed Culver City asset at 10150-10200 Jefferson Boulevard. Commercial real-estate sources identify Hackman as the $26 million buyer in 2021. California corporate-registr…
Hackman Capital Partners documented Amazon Studios as a major tenant at both Culver Studios and the office component of Culver Steps.
Hackman Capital Partners identified Square Mile Capital Management as its investment-platform collaborator in connection with the acquisition of the Sony Pictures Animation Campus in Culver City.
In September 2024 Hackman Capital Partners formed a strategic alliance with Laurie Samitaur Smith / Samitaur Constructs to manage the Conjunctive Points portfolio in Culver City's Hayden Tract. Contemporary sources described 26 commercial buildings totaling ap…
As part of a broader recapitalization of Samitaur Constructs' Culver City portfolio, HCP Culver Member, LLC, an affiliate of Hackman Capital Partners, entered into a convertible Upper Tier Facility with the borrower ownership structure tied to the Culver Colle…
Los Angeles Unified School District's official lobbying registries for 2024 and 2025 list Actum I, LLC as a paid lobbying organization for client Highland Electric Fleets, Inc. The stated lobbying issue is 'Electric buses,' and the listed representatives are J…
The California Secretary of State's 2025-2026 Lobbyist Employers directory lists Highland Electric Fleets, Inc. and identifies Caliber Strategies as its lobbying firm. The directory identifies Matt Stanberry as Highland's senior vice president contact for the …
LA28 announced Highland Electric Fleets as the Official Electric School Bus Provider of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Team USA on September 29, 2025. The announced program calls for 500 zero-emission electric school buses and related charging infra…
Public records, buyer disclosures, and filing-based reporting document a recurring West Hollywood institutional and real-estate network around Jason Illoulian and Faring that includes major development applications, registered land-use counsel/lobbying, projec…
Jesuits West documents John M. Sobrato as co-chair of the California Province's Generations Capital Campaign and says that he, his mother and his father provided significant financial support. The campaign exceeded $27 million overall and included major constr…
City staff wrote that Culver City had received $850,000 in congressional funding for Jubilo Village and believed it would offset the City's contribution. Community Corporation later proposed using the money against project losses, but Tara Barauskas wrote afte…
City and Community Corporation emails document Jubilo Village and YMCA negotiations over construction mitigation, shared driveway access, possible compensation and parking. In March 2026, Community Corporation Executive Director Tara Barauskas described YMCA-r…
The April 2020 first community-meeting minutes provide an early baseline for several issues that later reappear in Jubilo Village records. The early proposal contemplated more than 150 parking spaces and at least 70 church spaces; said the church would receive…
The Los Angeles County Democratic Party's official 2026 candidate-endorsement page lists Freddy Puza under Culver City Council, At Large. Culver City Crossroads reported the endorsement on October 5, 2026.
A 2014 fictitious-business filing identifies Stephanie E. Wissner and Peter A. Wissner as registrants of Maple Leaf Capital Company. Public entity records identify Stephanie Elise Mintle and Christopher Alan Mintle as managers of Mint Leaf Properties LLC. Prop…
Public property-record data shows Maple Leaf Capital Company and Coastal Capital Group LLC as sequential secured lenders on the same Commerce property in different years.
IRS-derived nonprofit filings identify Michael Hackman and Thomas Aujero Small as directors of Culver City Forward and Kelly Kent as secretary during the organization's filing history.
Hackman Capital Partners documented Michael Hackman recognizing Mayor Thomas Small during the Culver Studios Innovation Plan groundbreaking. This establishes a direct project-history connection at Culver Studios.
Direct institutional relationship between New Earth Organization and Culver City Unified School District beginning with a 2022 student-support arrangement and later resulting in Los Angeles Superior Court case 24STCV13243. New Earth sued for breach of contract…
Newmark arranged a $165 million refinancing of Raleigh Studios for Hackman Capital Partners, Affinius Capital and Raleigh Enterprises. Jonathan Firestone, Blake Thompson and Peter Mavredakis secured the financing, with Jordan Roeschlaub supporting the transact…
Newmark advised LBA Realty on the recapitalization of One Culver and identified Blackstone as a partial-interest investor/joint-venture partner. Los Angeles Business Journal reported an approximately $510 million valuation and $310 million in financing, with K…
An official New York State administrative record identifies Darrick Green as the contact for Cobblestone Development Consulting LLC in Sugar Land during a February 2022-January 2023 plan period. Secondary corporate-profile data places Odis Jones's Cobblestone …
After a resident emailed the City Council and City Manager requesting an audit of Jubilo Village, City Manager Odis Jones forwarded the message internally and wrote that Planning and Development had been leading the project and that City management should disc…
Federal court records establish that Adam Troy served as Chief Operating Officer of the Public Lighting Authority of Detroit while Odis Jones was CEO, and that Jones and Troy later became partners in MVP Capital Ventures. In 2026, Troy joined Culver City as As…
Public project reporting identifies Da'Mario Jones as Odis Jones's son and documents Da'Mario as a Cobblestone Development executive involved in land acquisition and strategy while Odis Jones led the company.
Culver City Manager Odis Jones publicly stated that he previously worked with Lea Eriksen when she served as Cincinnati Budget Director. Cincinnati records place Jones and Eriksen in the same municipal administration, and Eriksen later joined Culver City as Se…
Missouri City bond offering documents from Odis Jones's tenure as City Manager identify Hilltop Securities as financial adviser and Holland & Knight as bond counsel.
Orrick is documented in three distinct roles across the network: counsel to Hackman Capital entities on Culver Steps development-rights acquisition and construction financing and on Culver Studios acquisition/refinancing/redevelopment; bond and disclosure coun…
Direct May 2024 correspondence documents Deborah Redman and Jim Shanman coordinating a draft CCUSD letter, Safe Routes to School scope, proposed program quantities and cost assumptions for a Culver City ATP Cycle 7 non-infrastructure grant request. Shanman edi…
Square Mile Capital Management and Deutsche Bank provided $231.6 million in financing to Samitaur Constructs for a Culver City creative-office portfolio that included the (W)rapper Tower and other Jefferson Boulevard properties.
Public records document Sentinel Peak Resources as operator of the Culver City portion of the Inglewood Oil Field and document City regulatory actions, negotiations, and settlement records concerning termination of oil operations.
The hospital's June 22, 2021 federal complaint challenged Culver City's Premium Hazard Pay ordinance and set out a detailed chronology of collective bargaining, council deliberations, and communications involving city officials and SEIU personnel. The complain…
REthink Development's current Stage Right Residences project page directly identifies Brooks + Scarpa as the architecture/design collaborator and Ori Living as a partner integrating robotic space technology into the 34-unit mixed-use development at 9814 Washin…
A September 18, 2020 City Attorney letter preserved in the Greenberg complaint exhibits states that responsive 2019 email chains concerned Thomas Small's potential conflicts of interest and were exchanged among members of the City Attorney's Office, City Manag…
IRS Form 990 records materially strengthen the documented Thomas Small–Michael Hackman relationship through Culver City Forward. Small received $300,865 in combined/reportable compensation across 2019–2021, serving as CEO in 2019, CEO/President in 2020 while s…
The 2026 property-negotiation record sits against a longer documented Small-Hackman institutional history. IRS filings show Thomas Small and Michael Hackman serving together in Culver City Forward governance in 2020 and 2021; Small was the nonprofit's compensa…
Public conference records document recurring professional-network overlap between Thomas Aujero Small and Rick Cole through VerdeXchange. They appeared together on a VX2022 urban-planning panel, and both were listed as VX2026 speakers. Cole separately moderate…
This record documents a connection involving City of Culver City, Lowe and the source material that supports it.
Thomas Small is documented at the 2017 Culver Steps groundbreaking with developer Michael Hackman. In 2026, City Manager Odis Jones was identified as the City's real-property negotiator with Michael Hackman / Hackman Capital Partners for 9300 Culver Boulevard …
Small and Cole are documented repeatedly in the same regional and international urbanism/planning circuit: programmed consecutively in the same May 2022 International Making Cities Livable plenary followed by a joint panel discussion; seated together on the VX…
Thomas Small and Rick Cole are documented as simultaneous At-Large members of the ULI Los Angeles Advisory Board during FY2024.
Documented institutional relationship around the Culver City Tri-School area involving City transportation staff, CCUSD, transportation consultant Fehr & Peers and surrounding residents. Sources show recurring discussion of school pick-up/drop-off, crossing gu…
CCUSD Board Member Triston Ezidore publicly announced in 2025 that he had joined Highland Electric Fleets as a Government Partnerships Manager for Southern California. His current public profile shows the role later expanding to West U.S. This employment overl…
Ezidore's 2026 school-board campaign receipts include $500 from Highland Electric Fleets Chief Commercial Officer Brian Buccella and $100 from Actum Director Mayra Valadez. Actum is separately documented as Highland's paid lobbying representative before LAUSD …
Culver City records establish a direct project-level chain around the revised hotel at 11469 Jefferson Boulevard: Verdant Culver City LLC is the applicant; the City's active-project page lists Angel Orozco of Greens Group as applicant contact; and Best Best & …
Westside Cities Council of Governments selected Estolano LeSar Perez Advisors (now Estolano Advisors) through a competitive 2013 procurement and approved a one-year executive director services agreement on March 20, 2014. The agreement was extended annually, a…