SCG NEWS & NOTES
News, notes and commentary about our clients, local and national issues, the communications industry and happenings at the firm.
Sugerman Group Attends the 2023 Caruso School of Law Dinner
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, a few Sugerman Group staff finished up work for the day and walked from our office in Century City to the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The firm was proud to attend the 2023 Caruso School of Law Dinner to support Pepperdine’s law school—named...
A Year of Dramatic Swings in Cargo Volumes at West Coast Ports
The Pacific Maritime Association – which represents the world’s leading shipping lines and terminal operators operating at West Coast ports – recently issued its 2022 annual report chronicling top trends, news stories, and statistical data covering all 29 ports from...
Bisnow: Lincoln Property Company Commercial Announces Major Investment, New Leadership
SCG client Lincoln Property Company Commercial was featured in Bisnow. Read more below: Lincoln Property Company Commercial is expanding its business in the U.S. and overseas following a strategic investment by Connecticut-based Stone Point Capital. The Dallas-based...
Lulu’s Place Coming to Los Angeles
Earlier this month the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to approve a 50-year lease for a nonprofit youth center called Lulu’s Place at LAX Northside. SCG is proud to be part of the team that helped get this monumental philanthropic project across the finish...
CBS: South LA Costco Looks To Build 800 Apartments On Top Of Its Warehouse
SCG client Thrive was featured on CBS. Read more below: A developer in South Los Angeles hopes to not only a Costco in the area but also tackle the city's affordable housing crisis. The new housing project hopes to take over a closed AT&T building in Baldwin...
Panetta Institute Honors National Leaders for Bipartisanship
For the 21st consecutive year, Sugerman Group was proud to support the Panetta Institute for Public Policy’s annual Lincoln-Jefferson Awards. Proceeds support the Institute’s great nonprofit work, which ranges from a public lecture series and D.C. internship program...
CNBC: Turner Impact Capital Opens New Healthcare, Affordable Housing Social Funds
SCG client Turner Impact Capital was featured on CNBC. Read more below: Bobby Turner, Turner Impact Capital CEO, joins the ‘Halftime Report’ to discuss why he’s made impact investing a priority, Turner’s experience raising capital for new affordable housing and...
An Inspired Response to California’s Housing and Sustainability Needs
After years of anticipation and planning, SCG client FivePoint Valencia welcomed its inaugural residents at a homeowner breakfast at Confluence Park, a premier gathering space for the community, featuring swimming pools, a clubhouse, community gardens, and other...
SCG presents on Crisis Communications Planning at 2022 League of American Orchestras Conference
In light of acts of violence and natural disasters around the world, performance venues have increasingly focused on updating robust emergency communications plan to ensure they are prepared to respond quickly in the event of a crisis. Communications planning is...
Pasadena Now: Unveiled Monument Reveals Pasadena’s Hidden Racial History
SCG client LPC West was featured in Pasadena Now. Read more below: A historical art installation and monument consisting of ten bronze interpretive plaques along a walk emanating from the new 100 West Walnut development in Old Pasadena and around the 134/210 freeway...
Beverly Hills Courier: Cheval Blanc Approved by Planning Commission
SCG client Cheval Blanc was recently featured in the Beverly Hills Courier. Read more below: After a months-long pause, the Planning Commission signaled unanimous approval of the Cheval Blanc luxury hotel proposal on Rodeo Drive at a Special Meeting on May 26. The...
New Interns Join SCG in 2022
SCG is excited to welcome two new interns to the team for the summer. Allison joins us from UCLA, and Alex joins us from Colgate University. Allison Massey Allison is a senior at UCLA where she is majoring in Public Affairs and minoring in Professional Writing. Prior...
Introducing the Newest Member of the SCG Team
As a Southern California native, I couldn’t have been more excited to join a top communications and public affairs firm based in Los Angeles – even if it meant commuting on the 405. Taking on some of our city’s – and nation’s – greatest challenges is an exhilarating...
Turner-Agassi Education Facilities Fund Celebrates New Charter School Campus in Washington, D.C.
On a beautiful spring morning, SCG team members Randy, Caroline, and Alec joined Turner Impact Capital CEO Bobby Turner, tennis legend Andre Agassi, and local dignitaries for the opening of new facilities for Rocketship Infinity Community Prep in Washington D.C.’s...
A Super Impact on Small Businesses in LA
In February 2022, the Los Angeles area hosted its first Super Bowl in nearly three decades, drawing fans from around the globe to the new state-of-the-art sports and entertainment destination SoFi Stadium. It was another unforgettable chapter in an ongoing run of...
Urbanize LA: 1111 Sunset gets the go-ahead from City Planning Commission
SCG client Palisades was featured in Urbanize LA. Read more below: After a months-long pause, the Planning Commission signaled unanimous approval of the Cheval Blanc luxury hotel proposal on Rodeo Drive at a Special Meeting on May 26. The project stalled in February...
Bisnow: Weekend Interview: Turner Impact Capital’s Bobby Turner
SCG client Turner Impact Capital was featured in Bisnow. Read more below: This series gets into the heads of the decision-makers of CRE, the people shaping the industry by setting investment strategy, workplace design, diversity initiatives and more. Turner Impact...
Los Angeles Times: Creative Artists Agency signs lease for new Century City headquarters
SCG client JMB Realty was featured in the Los Angeles Times. Read more below: Creative Artists Agency is getting new digs — but it isn’t going far. One of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies signed a lease to become the anchor tenant in Century City Center, a planned...
Beverly Press: La Brea Tar Pits prepares for evolution
SCG client Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County was featured in the Beverly Press. Read more below: Over the last 50,000 years, the earth below the La Brea Tar Pits has been adapting to fit the environment around it, and now so too will the museum. On...
Los Angeles Times: L.A. voters angry, frustrated over homeless crisis, demand faster action, poll finds
SCG client Los Angeles Business Council Institute was featured in the Los Angeles Times. Read more below: Amid deep frustration over widespread, visible homelessness, Los Angeles voters want the government to act faster and focus on shelter for people living in the...
Proud to Play a Role in LABC’s Groundbreaking 2021 Homelessness Survey
With more than 66,000 unhoused people living in LA County at last count, SCG was proud to work with our long-time client, the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC), to help deliver a new voter opinion survey designed to identify and advance innovative, cost-effective...
SCG Spotted at the U.S. Open
It’s been 18 months since any Sugerman Group employee has boarded a plane for business travel. But when the opportunity arose to meet with a longtime client and take in a little tennis at the U.S. Open, Steve and Malina quickly remembered how to pack a suitcase and...
Laguna Beach Independent: Hotel Laguna’s refreshed restaurant, Larsen, is open for business
SCG client Laguna Beach Company was featured in the Laguna Beach Independent. Read more below: Hotel Laguna’s restaurant and lobby reopened with a fresh look on Tuesday after being shuttered for nearly four years. Mayor Bob Whalen used a pair of giant scissors to cut...
Reviving a Historic Laguna Beach Treasure
Offering panoramic views of the Pacific, whose waves tumble to shore just a stone’s throw away, the Hotel Laguna is a stately icon in the heart of Laguna Beach – a 90-year-old landmark whose guests have included the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and other...
Celebrating LA’s Trailblazers in Equality
In early October, Sugerman Communications Group participated in the Los Angeles Equality Awards, hosted by Equality California – the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. Honorees included LA County Supervisor Shelia Kuehl and Long Beach Mayor...
Celebrating L.A.’s “Unsung Heroes” at the New SoFi Stadium
Kudos to SCG client Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission (LASEC) for their event at the stunning new SoFi Stadium, which marked an important step toward Super Bowl LVI. Held at the 50-yard line, the ceremony recognized a wide-ranging mix of local community...
A New Mobility Solution for Traffic-Plagued West L.A.
Congratulations to SCG client MoceanLab for the recent expansion of its Mocean Carshare platform – L.A.’s first free-floating car-share service – from Downtown and Eagle Rock to West Los Angeles. The low-emission hybrid electric vehicles are designed to reduce...
Expanding Access to Opportunities in LA’s Business Community
Earlier this month, SCG client the Los Angeles Business Council, scored a major victory three years in the making: the LA City Council voted unanimously to fund the creation of a new procurement system designed to expand opportunities for L.A.’s small, diverse, and...
Celebrating 10 Years With SCG
The Zoom meeting invitation I received on a recent Friday didn’t seem like anything out of the ordinary. After all, for those of us fortunate enough to work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, video conferences have become almost as common as picking up the...
Saying Thank You to Frontline Heroes
Despite the current crisis, community members are still coming together to help take care of one another even while staying physically apart. Our client Palisades, which is transforming a 5.5-acre site at 1111 W Sunset Blvd, was eager to find a way to help its new...
The Karsh Center going above and beyond to help people in need
Our firm is proud to have a strong affiliation with The Karsh Family Social Service Center at Wilshire Boulevard Temple. Our firm’s President is a board member, and our team has provided a variety of pro bono services since the non-profit opened its doors. In the wake...
SCG laces up to fight Parkinson’s Disease
T-shirts and running shoes aren’t standard Sugerman Group attire, but it was the outfit of choice for three team members on a recent Sunday morning. The group gathered early in Griffith Park for a great cause: to run in the Los Angeles Fox Trot 5K for Parkinson’s...
Go Blue! SCG Teams up with University of Michigan LSA Opportunity Hub
The LSA Opportunity Hub is an innovative and growing program that connects the benefits of a liberal arts education with real-world experience for University of Michigan undergraduate students. For Sugerman Group, that means recruiting some of Michigan’s top students...
Celebrating 20 years of ExED with a special rebrand
This year marks the 20th anniversary since the founding of ExED, a mission-driven nonprofit that brings extraordinary expertise to the business end of managing charter schools. ExED was an early leader of the charter school movement, helping drive the phenomenal...
SCG returns to the Getty to lead crisis media workshop
Steve Sugerman and Randy James joined the Getty’s head of communications, Ron Hartwig, to lead a Media Training and Crisis Communications workshop for participants of the Getty Leadership Institute (GLI), which brings together leaders from prominent museums throughout...
SCG Perspective: Malina Brown on the intersection of sports and social impact
Despite marrying a college athlete and sports fan, I’ve managed to retain shockingly little knowledge about sports. I’m that person who prefers the Super Bowl commercials to the actual game and I need my 5-year-old to explain from the sidelines why all the other...
Sugerman Group honored by PRSA-LA
As a communications and public affairs consulting firm, SCG’s customary role is in the background – supporting our clients as they carry out their diverse missions. The recent PRism Awards Dinner was a bit of an exception, however, as SCG received honors from the LA...
Live the Lion’s Code: SCG presents groundbreaking campaign at PRSA in D.C.
In the wake of a national sexual assault epidemic on college campuses, Steve Sugerman and Lynne Scarboro, Senior Vice President of Administration at Loyola Marymount University, co-presented the “Live the Lion’s Code” campaign – a groundbreaking multifaceted...
SCG Perspective: Steve Sugerman on communicating in times of crisis
During times of crisis, clients find themselves in unfamiliar and uncomfortable territory. Usually, the CEO is huddled with a battery of advisors – lawyers, board members, financial experts. To help the issue “go away,” many of these advisors offer PR advice ranging...
Red Carpet Moment. A Third Life: The Fredric Roberts Photography Workshop Documentary Debuts
Our friend Fred Roberts is featured in this artful film chronicling a week-long photo workshop for L.A. teens from the nonprofit Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA). Check out this great documentary directed by Andrew Jeric, a rising star in the local film scene.
Barron’s: 20 Minutes With: Bobby Turner On Creating Social Impact
SCG client Turner Impact Capital was featured in Barrons. Read more below: Bobby Turner is a social impact investor with star-studded connections. The celebrity alliances began in 2001, when Turner, then co-founder and CEO at Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, joined...