Safeguard Business Unit Announces Security Services to Gables Residential
DALLAS, Nov 09, 2009
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Safeguard Security Holdings, Inc. (Pink Sheets: SSHS), a provider of corporate,
industrial and residential security solutions, announces that its subsidiary, SGI Protective Services,
has entered into an agreement to provide security services for Gables Villa Rosa, a Gables Residential
Property in Dallas, Texas. Gables Residential has received national recognition for excellence in the
management, development, acquisition and construction of luxury multi-family communities in high job
growth markets likewise to Dallas. Gables Residential is a privately owned REIT, which owns, develops and
manages multi-family communities and mixed-use developments in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, South
Florida, Southern California, and metropolitan Washington DC. Additionally it has third-party management
operations in the Chicago, New York, Phoenix, Central & North Florida, and Washington State markets.
Currently, the company manages over 35,000 apartment homes, owns 63 communities with nearly 17,000 units
and has an additional 20 communities in lease-up or under development. The additional pipeline
development represents over 5,000 new apartments and a variety of mixed-use spaces in all of its markets.
SGI's Vice President of Operations, Shelly Anderson, stated, "We are excited to have Gables
as a cornerstone client to our new residential protective services division. We have served Gables
previously with our commercial division and now that we have separated our service groups, we can now
provide expanded services to other residential properties throughout urban Dallas and Fort Worth."
R. Michael Lagow, CEO, Safeguard Security Holdings, Inc., added, "In concert with our new
residential guard and patrol division, we are looking to add additional video surveillance services to
assist in providing better security at a reduced cost to residential apartment communities through remote
site video monitoring with armed patrol response. We are in the final stages of development on our video
monitoring program and we will announce our plans by the end of Q4 2009 in providing this service to our
end-users."
About Safeguard: (www.safeguardsecurityholdings.com)
Safeguard is a fully integrated
sole-source security solutions provider offering a converged suite of physical and electronic services
through its operating subsidiaries. It provides corporate and government clients with a wide range of
security services ranging from highly trained armed and unarmed guards, security management staffing, and
security staff outsourcing, to installation and maintenance of integrated electronic security solutions,
and even to specialized consulting services as may be required to support the varying security needs of
its clients. The Company is organized along three distinct lines of business - Technical Systems,
Security Personnel and Security Outsourcing Solutions. Its operations are directed from its offices in
Dallas, Texas.
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involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to, the effect of economic conditions, the
impact of competition, the results of financing efforts, changes in consumers' preferences and trends.
The words "estimate," "possible," and "seeking" and similar expressions identify forward-looking
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publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, because of new information, future events, or
otherwise. Future events and actual results may differ materially from those set forth herein,
contemplated by, or underlying the forward-looking statements.
(C) 2009 Safeguard Security
Holdings, Inc. The information herein is subject to change without notice. Safeguard shall not be liable
for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
SOURCE: Safeguard Security
Holdings, Inc.
Safeguard Security Holdings, Inc.
R. Michael Lagow, 214-560-2268
michael.lagow@sshsmail.com