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Case Study

BOMA San Francisco

The voice of Bay Area commercial real estate has trusted the same web partner since 1995.

BOMA San Francisco represents the owners, managers, and service providers behind the Bay Area's commercial buildings, connecting them through advocacy, education, and a calendar that rarely sits still. Aero has designed, built, and maintained multiple generations of bomasf.org, adapting the platform each time the association's work changed shape.

  • Type

    Type
    Membership & Associations
  • Platform & Integration

    Platform & Integrations
    Drupal 11
    Novi AMS
  • Partnership Since

    Partnership Since
    1995
  • Live At

BOMA San Francisco - Home
boma meeting

One small staff, a full advocacy operation.

BOMA San Francisco speaks for property professionals in one of the most competitive real estate markets in the country, and its website carries the weight of that role: legislative updates, committee communications, event registrations, education programs, and member resources, all moving at once. The staff running it is small, the members reading it are on their phones between building walkthroughs, and the site has to work with the association's membership and email systems rather than around them. The platform needed to absorb all of that without becoming a second job for the people managing it.
 

Advocacy, events, and education running through one site.

The site runs on Drupal, structured so that BOMA SF's team publishes and updates content on their own schedule, with Aero handling the platform. Day to day, it lets the staff:

 

Publish advocacy

Staff posts policy priorities, advocacy updates, and briefs as soon as City Hall or Sacramento moves.

Promote events

Event listings link members straight into registration, from Java networking mornings to the TOBY Awards. 

Run committees

Eight committees, from Codes & Regulations to Emerging Professionals, maintain their own pages and updates.

Deliver education

RPA designation courses, Foundations of Real Estate Management, and scholarship programs are published side by side. 

Archive BOMA Views

The association's quarterly magazine lives on the site, issue by issue, going back years.

Connect the industry

The site routes members to the vendor directory, the job board, and the member portal without dead ends.

BOMA San Francisco Membership page
BOMA San Francisco - Event Registration
BOMA San Francisco - Educational Offerings
BOMA San Francisco - Resources Hub
BOMA San Francisco - TOBY Awards
BOMA San Francisco - Home
BOMA San Francisco - Home - Boma Views
BOMA San Francisco Membership page
BOMA San Francisco - Event Registration
BOMA San Francisco - Educational Offerings
BOMA San Francisco - Resources Hub
BOMA San Francisco - TOBY Awards
BOMA San Francisco - Home
BOMA San Francisco - Home - Boma Views

The mid-90s web is gone. This partnership isn't.

When Aero built the first BOMA San Francisco site, most of the association's members had never registered for an event online. Over 31 years, the platform has been rebuilt as often as the web itself demanded: responsive design when members went mobile, accessibility work as ADA standards matured, and new integrations as the association's membership systems evolved. Each generation of the site was a response to what BOMA San Francisco needed next, not a redesign for its own sake. Platforms changed. Standards changed. The partnership didn't.

Aero has been BOMA San Francisco's website partner for 31 years, and Ben and his team have continued to support us as our needs and technology have changed. They helped us redesign our website a few years ago and still manage and support it today.

Ben is responsive, patient, and genuinely easy to work with. He knows our organization and our website well, and I always feel comfortable reaching out when we need help, have a new idea, or need something handled quickly.

Megan Kelly - BOMA San Francisco Megan Kelly Associate Director, Membership & Communications, BOMA San Francisco