Citrus Heights Water District
Citrus Heights Water District
Hollywood Boulevard Concert
In the heart of the entertainment capital, Los Angeles, EKA specializes in expediting concerts and special event permits, transforming ordinary spaces into legendary venues. By navigating the complex web of regulations, we excel at cutting through the red tape to bring groundbreaking events to life. EKA seamlessly coordinates the entire process, at venues ranging from Union Station to renowned streets, warehouses, and parks, ensuring attention to every detail.
In October 2023, EKA helped make music history by orchestrating the closure of the iconic Hollywood Boulevard between Vine Street and Cahuenga Avenue. Playing host to global artists Fisher and Chris Lake, the event drew a staggering crowd of 12,000 people. This monumental feat resulted from meticulous planning, permitting, and extensive community outreach.
In March 2025, EKA managed the closure of Hollywood Boulevard yet again, this time with global artist Michael Bibi. This event mirrored the success of the first, received international attention, and raised thousands of dollars for LA Wildfire Relief.
EKA’s role extended far beyond permit acquisition. We managed all aspects, from fire and police coordination to ABC licensing, noise ordinances, building and safety compliance, street closures, and traffic control. Leveraging our extensive Los Angeles network, we conducted proactive outreach to neighbors, business improvement districts, homeowner associations, and Council Offices, ensuring a harmonious event environment.
The Hollywood Boulevard concerts receive praise for its dedication to safety, thorough planning, and flawless execution. Post-event feedback from local business owners and concert-goers alike affirmed that this night stood out as one of the best in their lives. Our unwavering dedication to excellence garnered recognition from key stakeholders from the Los Angeles Fire Department, LAPD, local business organizations, and governmental authorities.
EKA’s expertise in concert and special event permit expediting ensures that every occasion is not just an event but an unforgettable experience. Our ability to seamlessly blend regulatory compliance with creativity sets the stage for groundbreaking moments that resonate with the city’s vibrant entertainment culture.
Waste Hauling Company
EKA has represented several waste hauling firms that were coming up for contract renewals. By working with city staff in various cities, EKA has been successful and instrumental in helping the companies to avoid the RFP process and negotiate contract extensions.
When needed, EKA has also helped those same companies win numerous waste hauling RFPs throughout Los Angeles County.
SBE
SBE
Tina and her amazing team have been invaluable for me and SBE for over 2 decades, her strategic counsel and global insight of all matters in development have enabled us to deliver some of the city’s most treasured assets. — Sam Nazarian, Chariman & CEO, sbe
Midwood Investment and Development
Midwood Investment and Development
Tina brings practical, actionable solutions that save time and help your project’s schedule, especially towards the end of the job when financing costs are acutely high. She bridges the leadership gap between a project’s design team and city and agency management, so all parties work towards shared goals and actually get things done. Tina was an indispensable member of our design and construction team for the Shops at Sportsmen’s Lodge project. — Ben Besley, Midwood Investment and Development
LaTerra Development
LaTerra Development
LaTerra Development is a leading real estate investment management and development company with a portfolio value at completion estimated to exceed $3 billion and overseeing more than $1.5 billion in committed equity throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. Our success in the Los Angeles and Southern California region in part is due to our strong working relationship with Tina Choi, Partner at EKA. LaTerra specifically sought out Tina for her extensive experience in navigating the myriad of permitting, plan check and inspection requirements one must manage, to be successful.
Tina’s 30+ years of working closely with development and regulatory agencies, enabled her to leverage the valuable long term relationships with senior staff of these regulatory agencies, in securing agency permitting and code determinations on an expedited timeline, but also enabled us to secure various discretionary approvals which would not have been possible without her skillset and networking resources.
Working closely with our technical team of architects, engineers, and general contractors, Tina has played a significant role in proactively identifying and solving important ongoing issues with Building and Safety, Public Works, Transportation, Water and Power as well as other regulatory agencies. This unique quality has been critical to the success of many of our projects; saving time and millions in cost.
Tina is also unique in other skillsets allowing her to actively contribute from the earliest stages of a project’s timeline. This includes the due diligence, entitlements, plan check, permitting and inspection phases of our projects, thus providing true A-Z comprehensive concierge services. This type of comprehensive and consistent service ensures that we meet our project completion and occupancy dates on a reliable and predictable timeframe.
We know of no other consultant who provides this level of service – from the beginning of our entitlement phase to the final inspection phase. Her tenacity and ingenuity in finding solutions to significant regulatory challenges consistently encountered in our various projects, is extraordinary.
She moves between plan check issues with engineers,including onsite visits with our General Contractors and Subcontractors while negotiating solutions with City inspectors to move us through rough and final inspections , troubleshooting as needed to get us to our Occupancy approval expeditiously. She is adept in intervening with any and all agencies imposing regulatory requirements and is adaptive , creative and effective in efficient solutions to get us to our opening date. In short, Tina is the “fixer.”
I can genuinely recommend Tina. Her ingenuity, tenacity, vast network of contacts in the regulatory agencies and a consistent commitment to keep projects on schedule, has been invaluable to the LaTerra Team.
Charles Tourtellotte
CEO
LaTerra Development, LLC
AutoNation
AutoNation
Tina Choi joined my team to assist building a new, ground-up Jaguar Land Rover dealership experiencing significant challenges with the City of Los Angeles Building Department over the finish line. Severe financial impacts were faced as well as hired associates being unable to relocate and work if the occupancy date was missed.
Ms. Choi and her team have a mastery of navigating LADBS’ inspection, development and planning process and a vast, high-level network to consult and assist in their respective fields. Her methodical approach, leadership and expertise led us to achieve occupancy on the day the movers were scheduled to start the relocation process. Tina Choi and her team will be a part of my team on future car dealership projects! — Cliff Powell, Director, Construction and Development, AutoNation Inc.
Bundy Village
Bundy Village
Here is a brief case study of how EKA successfully implemented a targeted campaign using purchased voters lists, yard signs, a mailed video piece and direct mail.
The campaign was for Bundy Village. When it was over, the campaign consisted of two mailers to CD 11, the mailer to CD 5 and the door hanger. Our video can be seen here:
CAMPAIGN BREAKDOWN
By the time EKA was hired to kill the project, the Bundy Village project had already been approved by the Los Angeles City Planning Commission and was on its way to approval by the City Council, with the backing of Councilman Rosendahl. Link 1 Link 2
Within 4 weeks, we had over 10,000 opponents to the project within CD 11 and a small part of CD 5. Of those 10,000, we had about 4,000 agree to place a lawn sign in their front yard. Our campaign had multiple elements, including mailers, telephone calls, walkers, a video (which received 2,126 views online and was screened for various homeowner and neighborhood council groups) and emails. Link
Once this information was presented and lawn signs were distributed, Councilman Rosendahl came out again for the project and community opposition grew exponentially. First, the developer was forced to push back his City council hearing date from July until October. Link
Then, it was extended another 120 days as community pressure continued based on our mailers and email program. Link
Then, the developer filed for bankruptcy to head off foreclosure of the property because of his inability to obtain entitlements. “For his part, Lombardi blames Kilroy for the vicious and well-funded fight, saying that lenders are scared off by the controversy. “Every lender we have dealt with has seen the ‘Stop Bundy Village’ signs,” he says, referring to the signs that scattered across the entire Westside.” Link
Finally, the project died completely in August 2011, with the denial of all entitlements for the project. Link
BLM Initiative
BLM Initiative
Building Permit Expeditor
Building Permit Expeditor
This project involved a multi-million-dollar EKA was retained to assist the client in obtaining all the necessary permits required by the City of Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. During the process of handling the submittals and paperwork, our client was informed by the city that a $2 million-dollar fire system was necessary.
With our in depth understanding of Los Angeles building code, permit fees and project requirements, we were able to work with the building and fire departments to create an alternative smoke seal/life safety solution that won City approval. Our alternative fire safety system resulted in a real savings of $2 million for our client. We were able to save them from unexpected expense and meet the code requirements without delaying the project.