Facility Planning
Facility Planning: Build a map and set metrics for success
Early planning in facility development is essential for the efficient and effective use of funds and lays the foundation for engaging with stakeholders and securing buy-in to maximize community impact. Our knowledge brings real-world insight, and our tools help to explore solutions that have led to over $12 billion invested in arts facilities.
Facility Planning: Build a map and set metrics for success
Early planning in facility development is essential for the efficient and effective use of funds and lays the foundation for engaging with stakeholders and securing buy-in to maximize community impact. Our knowledge brings real-world insight, and our tools help to explore solutions that have led to over $12 billion invested in arts facilities.
Facility planning is envisioning how a cultural entity can intertwine with its community for long-term vitality. It takes thoughtful planning, careful development, and a commitment to engaging.”
Steven A. Wolff
AMS Principal
Conduct a community needs assessment
AMS starts by conducting rigorous and objective 360-degree analyses of your community’s arts, culture, and entertainment supply and demand. This includes understanding market demand and connecting directly with your community. It also includes understanding the arts and culture universe in your region. This data shapes a framework and provides the recommendations for your operating model and building design and an understanding of long-term financial impacts and requirements.
This research helps save significant costs by delivering clear recommendations to the design team in the pre-design phase of facility planning. Operating assumptions continue to be updated as the facility design evolves.
Are you ready to assess your community needs to define the size and scope of your operations?
Phases of Facility Planning
Whether your facility is just beginning to conceptualize a new facility, you are under construction, or your project is built out and in need of an operational model, AMS’s evidence-based methodology can positively shape your project and the cultural life of your community.
AMS Facility Planning Services for Arts and Culture Organizations
- Community facility needs assessments
- Historic preservation and adaptive reuse analysis
- Operations planning and forecasting
- Best practices in business planning, financial projections, and project financing
- Situation Analysis: market analysis, competition, and market potential
- Comparable development case studies
- Organizational development, governance, and staffing
- Facility use projections, space programming, and site assessment support
- Decision support during design, including business planning, financial projections, project financing, and capital campaign readiness
AMS Facility Planning Services for Arts and Culture Organizations
- Community facility needs assessments
- Historic preservation and adaptive reuse analysis
- Operations planning and forecasting
- Best practices in business planning, financial projections, and project financing
- Situation Analysis: market analysis, competition, and market potential
- Comparable development case studies
- Organizational development, governance, and staffing
- Facility use projections, space programming, and site assessment support
- Decision support during design, including business planning, financial projections, project financing, and capital campaign readiness
See Our Case Studies
Ensure your vision creates a lasting impact by partnering with AMS to design organizations and facilities that are effective, resilient, and vital. Utilize our approach that embraces problem-solving, recognizes innovation, and employs evidence-based strategies to positively shape the infrastructure of your community — today and into the future.
Ensure your vision creates a lasting impact by partnering with AMS to design organizations and facilities that are effective, resilient, and vital. Utilize our approach that embraces problem-solving, recognizes innovation, and employs evidence-based strategies to positively shape the infrastructure of your community — today and into the future.
Real-World Solutions
AMS Feasibility Study Unlocks Site and Partnership Deals for New Performing Arts Center in Alameda, California.
An AMS Strategic Facilities Plan Rethinks Priorities for Success for Louisville’s The Kentucky Center.
AMS Planning Study Challenges Assumptions and Outcomes of Acquiring New Space for TheaterWorks Hartford.
Real-World Solutions
AMS Feasibility Study Unlocks Site and Partnership Deals for New Performing Arts Center in Alameda, California.
An AMS Strategic Facilities Plan Rethinks Priorities for Success for Louisville’s The Kentucky Center.
AMS Planning Study Challenges Assumptions and Outcomes of Acquiring New Space for TheaterWorks Hartford.
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