Our varied clients have many different goals: public relations campaigns, complex land use matters, procurement efforts, and more. The seasoned Lighthouse team has helped our clients manage manifold challenges and navigate to success.
Lighthouse has advised this engineering giant on the full spectrum of Bay Area political and communications considerations, and has helped facilitate a variety of procurement successes, including the design of San Francisco’s newest wastewater treatment plant and the City’s new several-mile-long sea wall.
Lighthouse led all political strategy, lobbying, community relations, and media for Prudential Global Investment Management and Mill Creek Residential’s successful multi-year approvals process for the tallest, most controversial high-rise in Berkeley history — a process that even involved reversing a decision to designate air rights as a historical landmark.
Lighthouse worked with the national sports entertainment company Topgolf on the entitlements for a new Topgolf facility in Burlingame. This project will include three levels of hitting bays along with full food and beverage service.
Lighthouse worked with Khan Lab School, an in‑person private school associated with the free online learning platform Khan Academy, to successfully obtain a conditional use permit for school operations in Palo Alto.
Lighthouse successfully lobbied to obtain entitlements for the Kilroy Flower Mart, San Francisco’s largest-ever office building approval.
Lighthouse facilitated the approvals for several San Francisco store openings for this fast-growing value grocer, helping it navigate the City’s complex and demanding community and political landscape.
Since its inception, Lighthouse has advised this major pharmaceutical company on various political and land-use matters in South San Francisco and around the Bay Area.
Lighthouse guided the Presidio Terrace Homeowners Association through a political and media challenge, resulting in the Board of Supervisors reversing the tax sale of a private street. This was the first reversal of a property tax sale in San Francisco’s history.
Lighthouse helped facilitate approvals for a major expansion of this leading progressive independent school within its residential neighborhood, as well as approvals for new teacher housing in an adjacent property.
Lighthouse created and implemented the outreach, political and media strategies for San Francisco’s second-tallest building at First and Mission in San Francisco, including more than two million square feet of office, housing, hotel and retail.
Lighthouse led political and community outreach for Zendesk’s community benefit agreement, allowing Zendesk to receive the City’s first Mid-Market tax credit. Numerous technology companies then used Zendesk’s approach to be awarded hard-won tax credits.
Lighthouse worked with this privately-owned real estate development firm to entitle an 800-foot tower. The project will include a five-star hotel, 250,000 square feet of office space, and over 160 housing units.
Lighthouse led all aspects of community outreach, media and political strategy to entitle this controversial San Francisco project, labeled the “Beast on Bryant” by opponents. Despite massive opposition, Lighthouse’s efforts won unanimous support from theBoard of Supervisors.
Lighthouse continues to work with The Sobrato Organization on a range of projects in Palo Alto. Those projects include a multi-family housing development, a mixed use retail and R&D site, a SB 330 townhome project, and the installation of EV charging stations.
Lighthouse helped the nation’s second-largest waste collection company maintain their contract in Daly City, despite opposition from the City Manager. Lighthouse led political and community outreach on behalf of the company to ensure they retained their lucrative contract.
Lighthouse worked with AJ Capital Partners to successfully entitle a 100 room hotel project in the historic Hotel President building in Palo Alto. Originally opened in 1929 and designed by famed architect Birge Clark, the Hotel President is expected to reopen to customers in 2022 following a full historic renovation and seismic retrofit of the property.
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Denise brings more than 17 years experience in the public policy and state affairs environment. In her role with Elevance Health, she supported numerous executives and their teams to keep processes running smoothly and compliant.
As a Legislative Assistant within Lighthouse Public Affairs, Denise Corona Avalos brings her expertise in a broad variety of administrative tasks. She works directly with the Legislative Manager and firm lobbyists, providing scheduling assistance as well as technical and legislative support to our projects. Denise also monitors legislative and administrative hearings in the Capitol and follows issues and legislation important to our clients.
An alumnus of Sacramento City College and Skyline College, Denise is a Sacramento native who spends her spare time as an entrepreneur and affiliate marketer and is an avid “glamper.” During the summer months you’ll find her, her four dogs, and her husband on the Mendocino coast surrounded by redwoods.