SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
The Westside Urban Forum welcomes interested sponsors to support our mission.
Connect with and influence key Los Angeles city makers through the Westside Urban Forum. Join other preeminent companies as a sponsor of this respected land use organization. The Westside Urban Forum is in its third decade as the premier networking organization dedicated to elevating the land-use dialogue impacting Los Angeles’ Westside and beyond. Our monthly breakfast series features good company and distinguished insightful speakers focused on a lively debate about the future of our community. With over 100 attendees at each breakfast, the Westside Urban Forum offers a true opportunity to reach an influential audience of decision-makers, developers, architects, community members, planners, and investors in the real estate industry.
Our sponsors include companies such as yours who want to be associated with thought leaders focused on building smart cities. Your sponsorship monies go to support our monthly breakfast events and After Dark series. This enables the Westside Urban Forum to bring cutting edge, relevant topics with speakers representing all angles of the debate each and every month.
As a proud sponsor, your company logo would be featured on all of the Westside Urban Forum’s marketing materials. Prior to each breakfast, our emails reach over 1,800 interested and engaged individuals from all aspects of land use and real estate.
See below for a complete list of all the sponsorship opportunities and benefits!
$5,000 Platinum Sponsor Benefits
• Exclusivity of sponsorship.
• The Forum will not reach out to competitors for sponsorship dollars
• 1 individual membership
• 4 complimentary passes to each breakfast
• 4 complimentary tickets to an After Dark event
• Signage at all events with sponsor logo
• Link from Westside Urban Forum website to yours
• Link from Westside Urban Forum Facebook page
• Verbal recognition at all events
• Inclusion on all email blasts with a link to your website
• Ability to bring advertising materials to breakfast events
$2,500 Gold Sponsor Benefits
• 1 individual membership
• 2 complimentary passes to each breakfast
• Signage at all events with sponsor logo
• Link from Westside Urban Forum website to yours
• Link from Westside Urban Forum Facebook page
• Verbal recognition at all events
• Listed on all email blasts with a link to your website
• Ability to bring advertising materials to breakfast events
$1,500 Silver Sponsor Benefits
• 1 individual membership
• 1 complimentary pass to each breakfast
• Signage at all events with sponsor logo
• Link from Westside Urban Forum website to yours
• Link from Westside Urban Forum Facebook page
• Verbal recognition at all events
• Listed on all email blasts with a link to your website
• Ability to bring advertising materials to breakfast events
Contact us for more information!
WUF SPONSORS
ARC is a full-service print and document management provider that has delighted customers for over 100 years. From our 190 locations, we produce dazzling prints and graphics for any application you can dream of, while helping organizations to seamlessly manage their information and documents.
Akerman LLP is a top 100 U.S. law firm recognized among the most forward thinking firms in the industry by Financial Times. Its more than 700 lawyers and business professionals collaborate with the world’s most successful enterprises and entrepreneurs to navigate change, seize opportunities, and help drive innovation and growth.
Our Real Estate Practice Group is consistently distinguished as one of the leading teams of real estate lawyers and development professionals in the United States. We advise on the full range of sophisticated real estate transactions, land use and development matters, and construction projects, with a strong focus on portfolio transactions, complex and alternative financings, and large-scale development and redevelopment projects.
KOA, a leading transportation planning and traffic engineering firm, has influenced this growth through its innovative transportation solutions. We offer our clients technical expertise, state-of-the-art traffic engineering skills, regional perspective, extensive area-wide experience, reviewing agency rapport, and collective knowledge to produce transportation solutions that enable our clients to achieve superior results.
Cox, Castle & Nicholson has a breadth of experience that allows us to practically, yet creatively, take a real estate project from acquisition through development, leasing, and disposition. We specialize in representing market-rate and affordable-housing developers, lenders, investors, joint ventures, landlords, tenants, high net worth individuals, and others with their complex real estate, business, and litigation challenges. With three offices in California, we are committed to handling each legal matter efficiently and economically while providing the finest quality legal services.
Helms Bakery District is a historical Los Angeles destination, with award-winning restaurants, a unique collection of design and home furnishings stores, and simply a perfect place to meet with friends. This landmark building nestled in the heart of West L.A. is easy to get to and located just one block east of the Metro Expo Line. Join us for a day of food, furniture and fun.
HKS Los Angeles has all the strengths of a large, global firm and the benefits of a small design studio culture. We excel in dealing with the complexity of large projects and we cultivate design as mentors of exceptional well-rounded designers and architects. Our technical foundation, strong track record and excellent resources enable us to deliver visionary design concepts, and hands-on principal-led engagement throughout the process ensures our reliability.
HR&A Advisors, Inc. (HR&A) is an economic, policy, and real estate advisory firm that helps create more equitable, resilient, and dynamic communities. Our work turns vision into action through rigorous analysis, strategy development, and implementation planning. We have provided strategic advisory services for some of the most complex mixed-use, neighborhood, downtown, campus, and regional development projects across North America and abroad for over forty years.
We have offices in Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Raleigh, and Washington DC, a presence that allows us to serve clients all over the world. From Southern California to Brooklyn, and London to Medellin, we have guided hundreds of clients in transforming real estate and economic development concepts, and public infrastructure, first into actionable plans then into job-producing, community-strengthening assets. We have served a range of clients – real estate owners and investors, hospitals and universities, cultural institutions, community development organizations and governments – since 1976.
Impact Sciences, Inc., founded in 1988, is a certified woman-owned environmental planning firm based in California with one vision in mind: We Get Your Project Moving. We take pride in creating lasting partnerships founded on trust and the spirit of collaboration. We specialize in all facets of environmental planning, and our technical experts offer personalized service and high-level strate
gic guidance on even the most complicated environmental planning issues.
JERDE is a global group of innovative pioneers, architects, landscapers, urban planners, and strategists with a collective commitment to design beyond the ordinary. Its worldwide portfolio of Places spans diverse genres, built on the attributes of creativity, experiences, and team culture.
Lowe is a private real estate investor, developer and manager. Founded in 1972 by our Chairman Robert J. Lowe, our company is owned by active and retired employees. Over the past 49 years, Lowe has acquired, developed or managed over $32 billion of real estate assets. We have offices in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Irvine, Charleston, Denver, Seattle and Washington, DC.
Lowe uncovers and delivers value beyond what might be expected from a traditional real estate company. We value collaboration and partnership with others, welcoming new ideas and perspectives. Lowe is committed not to a single service, property type or location, but to mastering the process of building value in real estate. We create commercial properties, hotel properties, multifamily properties, and retail properties. Often, we get the opportunity to combine all of these skills to create a new mixed-use environment. Through our foundation of steadfast values and innovative real estate services we strive to bridge meaningful and positive human experiences with financial performance. We tailor our approach to the needs of each asset and the goals of each partner and find opportunity in complex challenges.
Swinerton is a multi-billion dollar market leader in the construction industry. Founded in 1888, the Swinerton family of companies has 18 offices throughout the United States. Since 1932, the Swinerton Los Angeles office has established itself as a leader within the local building community. Combining on-the-ground, local teams with the resources of a large, nationally-ranked corporation, we have built a record of outstanding performance that exceeds clients’ expectations. Swinerton's core markets include: Aviation, Education, Healthcare, Hospitality, Office, Parking Structures, Residential, and Special Projects.
The Executive Master of Urban Planning (EMUP) online program at USC Price is designed for seasoned professionals who want to build more vibrant, just, and sustainable cities. Our multidisciplinary, sixteen-month program combines flexible online coursework with two in-person intensives in Los Angeles built for networking and collaboration. Whether students come from in or outside the planning field, they emerge with the real-world skills and connections necessary to advance their careers in urban planning, public policy, and real estate development.
