OUR SERVICES: Program & Facilities Planning

We have the property and an architect, so why would we need more to start our renovation or construction project?

Building community support and a cultural legacy requires careful planning and preparation.

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.

ACG has an integrated approach and solution. Our team brings strong capabilities and experience to facilities and program planning projects, including:

Depth of experience in feasibility studies of arts, cultural, and education facilities and their unique institutional needs.

Demonstrated leadership in the programming, planning, design, and completion of an extensive list of new and renowned cultural facilities.

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

A unified approach to estimating costs of planning, design, and construction of a wide range of arts and cultural 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, with client organizations, and their extensive network of stakeholders.

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 endowment, 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 unique needs quickly and cost effectively. This depth of expertise includes architects, theatre planning consultants, museum experts, acousticians, market demographers, 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 facility and program 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.

See Our Clients section for a list of some of the organizations with whom we’ve worked.