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 …
Transaction / financing-status relationship partially documented; lender unresolved
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…
Project development, design, applicant, and public-agency relationship Direct project and government sources Documented
Public records and reporting document the acquisition, debt, default, and creditor-control chain for the former Sony Pictures Animation campus at 9050 Washington Boulevard. Hackman Capital Partners and the investment platform then known as Square Mile Capital …
Property financing / default / lender takeover relationship Direct acquisition and City agenda records plus contemporaneous real-estate reporting on default, lender role, note acquisition, and credit bid Reported lender takeover; City/PFA negotiation scheduled September 14, 2026
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 …
Recurring professional relationship Direct firm self-disclosure and primary City/state project records Documented
Municipal finance relationship
Commercial real estate lending relationship
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…
Professional / corporate-formation relationship
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…
Direct school-district real estate advisory relationship CCUSD archived meeting transcripts plus current Rivercrest project documentation Study documented; later referenced by City Council in 2025
Culver City records document a recurring direct relationship with REthink Culver, LLC across separate development and property matters. At 9814 Washington Boulevard, the City and REthink entered a 2022 development/disposition agreement for sale and redevelopme…
Recurring public-private development / property relationship Direct relationships in separate documented matters Documented through City project pages and Council records
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…
Government banking / purchasing-card relationship
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 lease, development and funding relationship Direct City record Community Center open; 2024 affordable-housing amendment approved
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-private redevelopment relationship Direct City Council staff report and Legistar action record Proposal selected; ENA and lease negotiation directed
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.
Recurring development and public-finance counsel relationship Strong
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.
Prior private-development project collaborator and existing Culver City vendor overlap Moderate
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…
Direct cross-institutional governance and professional network Multiple direct role overlaps; no coordination among institutions inferred Documented
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.
Public finance / professional services relationship
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…
Property financing
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 professional and regional-governance relationships Strong - appellate opinion, official law-firm source, and official COG roster Documented
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 …
Direct public-private land / redevelopment / remediation relationship Direct City of Carson, Carson Reclamation Authority, state financing-agency, and audited public-finance records Documented 2020-present; continuing implementation and negotiations
Hackman Capital Partners documented Amazon Studios as a major tenant at both Culver Studios and the office component of Culver Steps.
Landlord / tenant property relationship
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.
Investment and acquisition partnership
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…
Convertible real estate financing and asset-management relationship
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…
Recurring institutional relationship network Primary City project and lobbyist records, buyer/SEC transaction disclosures, and filing-based local reporting Ongoing
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…
Family / business-entity relationship documented relationship; Lafayette financing unresolved
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.
Same-collateral / private-lending ecosystem overlap documented sequential lending on the same property
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.
Nonprofit governance overlap
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.
Project and public-event overlap
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…
Debt and structured-finance relationship
Newmark's Kevin Shannon helped facilitate the management alliance under which Hackman Capital Partners joined Laurie Samitaur Smith in overseeing the 26-building Conjunctive Points portfolio in Culver City's Hayden Tract. Newmark's Jonathan Firestone helped ar…
Transaction and management-alliance relationship
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…
Recapitalization and investment relationship
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…
Prior public-sector colleagues and subsequent private real estate business partners; later reunited in Culver City government Very strong
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.
Family relationship and shared real estate development business Strong
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…
Prior municipal colleagues later reunited in Culver City government Very strong
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.
Historical municipal-finance adviser and bond-counsel network Strong
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…
Institutional / financing-network overlap documented separate institutional matters
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.
Real estate financing relationship
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.
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…
Direct project-team relationship Direct relationships stated by the project developer and supported by organization source pages Documented by developer; construction expected in 2026
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…
Documented municipal legal consultation
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…
Direct nonprofit governance and financial relationship Direct recurring organizational governance relationship documented by IRS filings Documented
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…
Contemporaneous institutional / developer overlap with documented historical governance relationship Direct recurring Small-Hackman nonprofit governance; direct Jones-Hackman property-negotiation overlap; no documented Small role in the 2026 negotiations Documented; September 14 negotiation scheduled on final agenda
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…
Professional-network overlap Direct same-panel overlap in 2022; recurring institutional overlap in 2026 Documented
Public discussion of project Documented public project discussion
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 …
Same-property / same-developer overlap
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…
Recurring professional / institutional-network overlap documented repeated participation
Thomas Small and Rick Cole are documented as simultaneous At-Large members of the ULI Los Angeles Advisory Board during FY2024.
Institutional / professional-network overlap