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Wednesday, 22 June 2005

AMS Planning and Research (AMS)

With offices in Petaluma, California, Fairfield, Connecticut, and St. Louis, Missouri, AMS Planning & Research is the only national arts management consulting firm. Our mission is to support the devel-opment and operation of successful arts and entertainment ventures by providing superior analysis and interpretation of industry practices and trends, and acting in partnership with our clients, to de-velop innovative and effective business strategies. AMS believes arts and entertainment enhance people’s daily lives and the communities in which they live.

AMS has been involved in hundreds of arts facility development and operating plans since its found-ing in 1988. These include operating and strategic plans for major performing arts organizations such as the Orange County Performing Arts Center in California, City of Phoenix Theater Manage-ment Division, Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) in Ohio, Lincoln Center in New York City, and we are currently advising arts organizations that will be moving to the new World Trade Center site. AMS also maintains a comprehensive ongoing analysis of the operational per-formance of twenty-five major Performing Arts Centers across the United States and Canada.

On the web at: www.AMS-online.com

Historic Consultants, Inc.

Historic Consultants, Inc. (HCI) is a team of highly experienced real estate professionals that bring together every aspect of building rehabilitation and reuse in a single organization. By providing pro-fessional financial and project management expertise for substantial historic rehabilitation projects, HCI provides a unique and valuable service to owners of historic buildings to help them accomplish their rehabilitation goals and achieve a reasonable rate of return on their investment.

Founded in 1994, the seasoned professionals of HCI have a considerable network of specialized professional organizations and lenders which provide the necessary resources to accomplish a real estate development project of this nature. This HCI system allows us to provide our clients with a single comprehensive resource for rehabilitation services, unlike any other company in the United States.

Westlake Reed Leskosky (WRL)

Westlake Reed Leskosky, with offices in Cleveland, OH, Washington, DC and Phoenix, AZ, is an integrated architectural and engineering firm with a specialization in large-scale historic preservation projects and are national leaders in the adaptive re-use of historic theatres into contemporary performing arts venues. WRL’s portfolio now includes work on over two hundred properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The firm is fully accustomed to working with local and state preservation commissions with many of their primary clientele include municipalities and federal agencies.

The firm strives to work within the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation to ensure that historic fabric is respected and retained in all of the firm’s work. Westlake Reed Leskosky frequently begins work at the very early phases of projects and has undertaken numerous projects that started with an initial feasibility assessment. Westlake Reed Leskosky was founded in Cleveland in 1905 and now has offices in Phoenix, Arizona; Cleveland, Ohio and Washington, DC.

WRL provides comprehensive fully integrated design and management services including Architecture, Engineering, Interior Architecture and Design, Master Planning, Programming, Theater Technical Services, Feasibility Studies, and assistance with historic tax credits and New Market tax credits.

WRL has provided services for this theater study effort that have assisted in evaluating the current physical conditions of the theaters, as well as providing critical planning advice and strategies for the theaters reuse. As one of the premier provider of architectural services for historic theater rehabilitations utilizing historic tax credits and new markets tax credits, WRL’s team contributes a unique perspective to redevelopment solutions for historic theaters.

HCI Media

Guido Hamacher has over 15 years experience in engineering and computer science. His background includes leading the development of a Computer Aided Design program during his time as lead programmer at the FH Düsseldorf. He later a developed quantity mass survey program for a landscape design firm and a computer setup for automated manufacturing on tooling machines.

Guido Hamacher received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from FH Düsseldorf and a degree in Computer Engineering from FH Wiesbaden.

Mr. Hamacher started HCI-Media while working as Quality Assurance Engineer for a successful internet start-up company in San Diego. HCI-Media specializes in consulting for internet marketing, website design and implementation, as well as CD production and marketing materials.

Landmark Location & Event Promotion

Jon Olivan currently oversees his own consulting company known as Landmark Location & Event Promotion. His background includes over 15 years of experience in the successful marketing and promotion of historic theatres and film locations, the production and coordination of special events and media relations. In addition, Jon established the profitable film location division of Metropolitan Theatres Corporation (including virtually every major downtown L.A. Broadway district historic thea-tre and other historic properties) from 1989 until 2002.

He also founded the non-profit Friends Of The Orpheum Theatre which produced film festivals, jazz concerts and other live stage events in an effort to raise funds to save and restore the Orpheum Theatre as well as increase public awareness of downtown L.A.’s historic Broadway Theatre district. Jon was instrumental in demonstrating the vi-ability of reviving the Orpheum Theatre which led to its major restoration in 2003 and successful renaissance as a frequent special event location.

From 2002 to 2004 he also served as marketing director of Pasadena’s famous Castle Green spe-cial event site and prior to that served in various professional capacities for a number of high profile entertainment companies including 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, the Hollywood Reporter, KCET public television and Disneyland.