Financial Training: Arts Districts, Cultural Districts, Design Districts...

FINANCIAL TRAINING & ADVISORY SERVICES - This ADI AFFILIATE is a leading advisory and training firm with a unique focus on arts, design and cultural destination districts. The array of flexible and inventive advisory services offers strategic insight, value-added-support and leverage assistance to destination district participants, large and small, including the following: 

1. Helping develop action plans to execute against the strategic vision... 
2. Helping advise on capital services support and implementing creative financial structures... 
3. Helping apply structuring and capital markets expertise...
4. Advising on site re-development financial benchmark services... 
5. Advising about referrals to certified Mortgage Brokers and Banking Correspondents sympathetic to the unique challenges faced by arts, design and cultural redevelopment proponents, including programs tailored for new, emerging and premier positioned destination districts in many configurations...
6. Consulting on a full spectrum of financial advisory services.  The ADI DIVISION works closely with destination district organizations, stakeholders and their council to optimize clear, tangible value realization and to address the most complex social integration issues; our value-added financial advisory services include the following: Destination Recovery; Interim Management; Valuation Services; and, Supplementary Services.   Arts Districts International, since 1988

MANAGEMENT ADVISORY SERVICES - Provided by our COLOSSAL CONCEPTS AFFILIATE for Members in good standing. This special program is personally led by our Executive Director Emeritus. The focus is on helping Members to align interests -- economic, artistic and social. Our ability to train district leaders to align these interests has been a core ingredient of our success since the 1980s. From the inception of our Management Advisory Services Program, the executive committee Members have invested thousands of hours in combined efforts to train and advise emerging and established projects. We train and advise Member's exceptional studios, corporations and management teams which share a vision for maximizing value invention in self-supporting destination districts. Accordingly, we work closely with each district team to train them to construct performance targets and incentive programs that align with a district's strategic roadmap and to support the ultimate objective of rewarding communities with a downtown engine for acclaimable, lasting change.

PREFERRED LONG-TERM MEMBER COMMITMENTS - The unique heritage of our operating foundation supports a culture that embraces our Member Destination Districts as long-term commitments. For over 25 years, Dr. Thomas and the ADI AFFILIATE team have developed a reputation as value-added, high-integrity participants. We understand the challenges often faced by studios, corporations, management teams and entrepreneurs as we work with us to train them to invent destination district sites, buildings and institutions. We are particulalry adept at advising how to establish efficient tax structures and artwork transfer and branding strategies to help district participants meet both financial and non-financial objectives. As a result of our long history of working with destination district participants, we are particularly knowledgeable and sensitive to the tax, accounting and operational nneeds of destination district properties and entities.