OUR SERVICES: PROGRAM & FACILITIES PLANNING

Arts Consulting Group is uniquely qualified to provide comprehensive and integrated consulting services that can help bring a facilities project from the earliest stages of conception, planning, and feasibility analysis through to its funding, fundraising campaign, and grand opening. Most cultural and educational organizations considering major new facilities projects, significant renovations, or new programmatic initiatives need expertise typically not found in one consulting firm or among the organization's existing management, staff, and board.

The ACG team brings strong capabilities and experience to program and facilities planning projects:

Depth of experience in feasibility studies of performing and visual arts facilities and institutional needs, both in the United States and around the world.

Demonstrated leadership in the programming, planning, design, and construction of an extensive list of renowned arts facilities world-wide.

In-depth expertise in developing financial operating estimates and in recommending ownership, governance, management, and staffing models for arts facilities and organizations.

A collaborative approach to estimating costs of planning, design, and construction of a wide range of arts facility capital projects.

Broad experience in developing funding and fundraising solutions for arts and cultural facility projects.

Profound understanding of the needs of the arts and culture industry, the communities and audiences they serve, and of the economic realities they face.

A collaborative attitude both among team members and with client organizations.

ACG can effectively guide your organization through all steps of a project, with services that include:

Facility and Program Needs and Feasibility Assessment: ACG analyzes and tests the needs for proposed new, renovated, or adaptive-reuse facilities and the appropriate program initiatives that meet those needs.

Project Costs and Financial Operating Estimates: ACG prepares estimates of new program costs, incremental operating expenses for new facilities, earned revenues and contributed income, and collaborates with other specialists such as architects to provide preliminary capital cost estimates.

Funding and Fundraising Feasibility and Plan: ACG assesses the organization's capacity to raise the necessary funds to achieve their goals.

Capital Campaign Implementation: ACG provides a wide range of services to bring the facility project and programs to realization.

Team Member Collaborators:

ACG's comprehensive services utilize an integrated team of professionals to meet our client's needs quickly and cost effectively. This depth of expertise includes architects, theatre planning consultants, museum experts, acousticians, fundraising professionals, project cost consultants, real estate owners and developers, economic analysis teams, and site planning, traffic, and engineering consulting firms.

Clients:
ACG provides extraordinary results to a wide range of organizations and institutions in their program and facility planning efforts, including performing arts centers; symphony orchestras; opera, dance, theatre companies; museums (visual art, performing arts, children's, science, nature, air & space, history, and others); education and cultural institutions; states, counties, municipalities, and arts councils.

Selected Recent and Current Program & Facilities Planning consultancies include:

• City of Carmel, IN - facility, market, financial feasibility
• City of Burlington, ON, Canada - financial feasibility
• Children's Museum of Alabama, AL - facility, market, financial feasibility
• Community Vision of Hilton Head, SC - facility, market feasibility
• Joshua M. Freeman Foundation, MD - facility, market, financial, fundraising feasibility
• Massachusetts Air and Space Museum, MA - facility, program, market, financial, fundraising feasibility
• Pagosa Springs Arts Alliance, CO - facility, market, financial, fundraising feasibility
• Sarasota Symphony, FL - facility, market, financial, fundraising feasibility
• Walton Arts Center, AR - program, market, financial, facility feasibility

Selected Capital Campaign Feasibility and Consulting consultancies:

• Carmel Performing Arts Foundation, IN - $50 million concert hall building campaign
• Children's Museum of Alabama, AL - fundraising feasibility and $6 million campaign
• Long Island Children's Museum, NY - fundraising feasibility for $8 million campaign
• Walton Arts Center, AR - fundraising feasibility
• Trinity Repertory Theatre, RI - campaign planning

Program & Facilities Planning and Fundraising consultancies:

• Duluth Superior Symphony, MN -- $1 million renovation campaign
• Junebug Productions, New Orleans, LA - endowment feasibility)
• Irish Repertory Theatre, New York, NY - $6 million building purchase campaign
• Lyric Opera San Diego, CA - $8 million capital renovation campaign
• Manship Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA - business planning
• Naval Training Center Foundation (Dance Place San Diego), CA - $2 million capital campaign
• Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ - business planning, counsel
• San Diego Symphony Orchestra, CA - case statement review and revision for $200 million campaign
• South Coast Repertory Theatre, Costa Mesa, CA - $50 million capital, endowment, & operating campaign
• South Orange Performing Arts Center, South Orange, NJ - campaign planning retreat
• SummerFest, Birmingham, AL - campaign feasibility & market assessment
• Town of Barnstable, Hyannis, MA - program & facility feasibility