Innovating Is Our Business.
We are a multi-disciplinary team of experts who create effective solutions that build and sustain community resilience, promote economic development, increase social equity, and accelerate prosperity.
Strategic Support. Client-Centric Service. Cross-Disciplinary Solutions.
Somos Group brings together a creative, dynamic team of professionals, each proven experts in their own fields. There are no silos at Somos. We leverage our collective expertise, providing cross-disciplinary solutions to benefit our corporate, government, and individual clients.
Building Better Together
With offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Somos Group brings together Somos Advisors and Somos Law Group to provide clients with comprehensive resources and project-specific services.
Somos Law Group includes lawyers and paralegals with specialties in land use law and real estate transactions.
Somos Advisors includes preeminent advisors and design professionals with expertise in planning, design, labor relations, government advocacy, and other key disciplines.
We Deliver Outcomes.
We are founded on the premise that clients need results-oriented solutions benefiting from professionals that are experts at harnessing multiple disciplines and expertise, including qualitative and quantitative research, strategic planning, entitlements and permitting, communications, outreach and engagement, labor relations and government advocacy.
Effective solutions to complex, systemic challenges require innovative services, cross-disciplinary expertise as well as experience in consulting with a broad range of stakeholders and communities.
Excellence Through Diversity
We are a minority- and woman-owned business with deep community connections who believe the built environment is a tool for healing and promoting human potential. We are committed to advancing the value of people and communities who have been historically under-resourced and underserved because of systemic inequities.
We are proud to be at the forefront of the movement to make the profession of land use planning and development—as well as American society at-large—more inclusive, socially responsible, and equitable.