Community Planning
County of Arlington, Virginia
The County asked AMS to lead a study to inform support of the arts in Arlington County over the coming 20 years. AMS developed a situation analysis of the agency and provided key informant interviews, a market analysis, best practices research, and a stakeholder's survey.
City of Mississauga , Ontario
AMS Planning & Research was engaged by the Corporation of the City of Mississauga to analyze and make recommendations on the future role and identity of the Living Arts Centre and Meadowvale Theatre within the context of the new Culture Master Plan.
Columbus Foundation
The Columbus Foundation engaged AMS to explore the breadth and depth of the cultural ecosystem in Columbus and determine whether it was 'right-sized,' how the sector might be appropriately capitalized, and what strategies might be implemented to achieve this level of capitalization.
City of Kingston, Ontario, and Queen's University
The City of Kingston was experiencing a dramatic increase in its inventory of live arts and entertainment venues. They called AMS to help them plan better ways for these facilities to work together rather than against each other.
City of Salt Lake and Salt Lake County
Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County developed a sales-tax-based fund to support the marketing, branding, development and improvement of arts and cultural activities in Salt Lake's Cultural Core. AMS Planning & Research Corp. helped gather community insights and recommend primary investment goals.
City of Lee's Summit, Missouri
The City of Lee's Summit, Missouri, is a rapidly growing suburb in the Kansas City metropolitan area, with a population of nearly 90,000 residents. In 2004, the Mayor and City Council established a strategic goal to conduct a feasibility...
City of Visalia, California
Located in California's fertile central valley just south of Fresno, the city of Visalia may be best known as the gateway to Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks, about an hour's drive east into the Sierra mountain range. The...
Cultural Facilities Master Plan for Salt Lake County, Utah
AMS worked with a community-based committee of leaders from the various sectors of the County and through a process of comprehensive research and consensus-building, developed recommendations for a twenty year plan for cultural facilities development.