Working in close collaboration with our Board of Directors to build a strong foundation and successful strategy for the arts center, this exemplary team includes the most capable professionals in their respective specialties.
Development Partner
Hines is a privately owned real estate firm involved in real estate investment, development and property management worldwide. The Hines portfolio of projects underway, completed, acquired and managed for third parties includes more than 1,000 properties representing approximately 416 million square feet of office, residential, mixed-use, industrial, hotel, medical and sports facilities, as well as large, master-planned communities and land developments. With offices in 68 U.S. cities and 15 foreign countries, and controlled assets valued at approximately $19.9 billion, Hines is one of the largest real estate organizations in the world. hines.com
Charles K. Watters, Jr. - Senior Vice President. Since joining Hines in 1989, Mr. Watters has been involved in a variety of development projects and transactions aggregating more than 9.5 million square feet. He is responsible for the development and operation of projects in the Midwest Region of the United States.
Production Architect
HKS Architects is a leading multi-disciplinary architecture firm. The Orlando office is its largest regional office. Notable projects include Orlando City Hall, CNL Towers I and II, Florida Hospital East Orlando Bed Tower and the new Hilton Convention Center Hotel. Their performing arts facility experience includes Bass Performance Hall in Ft. Worth and the Smith Center for Performing Arts in Las Vegas, both in association with DMS Architectural Services. hksinc.com
J. Michael Woollen, AIA, NCARB – Project Manager. Michael has specialized in sports and public assembly projects for the last 22 years. He is responsible for business development, design, and project management responsibilities in HKS’s Sports and Entertainment Group. He is actively involved in all phases of projects, but has special expertise in the initial planning stages. His professional experience in sports and public assembly facilities provides him with a comprehensive understanding of all development aspects of projects, including master planning, programming, project budgeting and cost estimating, financial feasibility, operational and functional elements, and design and technology.
Production Architect
Baker Barrios Architects is a local firm that provides architecture, master planning, pre-design and interior design services. The firm has designed many local projects including The Plaza, the new OUC (LEED) corporate office building, UCF Recreation Services Center and 55 West. bakerbarrios.com
Carlos Barrios, AIA - Principal-In-Charge. Carlos is responsible for managing the technical production and management commissions. He has more than 25 years of experience as an architect, project manager and project executive. As the principal-in-charge, project executive or project manager of many major projects, Carlos has made significant contributions to the local landscape during his tenure with Baker Barrios Architects, Inc. His areas of expertise include the design of high-technology facilities, mixed-use developments, government facilities, hospitality complexes, educational facilities and convention centers. His extensive background in working with both public sector and private clients has aided the outstanding growth of the firm.
Design Architect
Barton Myers Associates is architecture and planning firm located in Los Angeles since the early 1980’s has grown to a firm of twenty professionals, including four professionally registered architects, currently working on an assortment of major commissions for public, private and institutional clients. Barton Myers has earned an international reputation for excellence in architectural design with projects ranging from houses to large urban developments. At every scale, many of Barton Myers’ projects have been pioneering efforts - his own industrial, off-the-shelf components house; the development of high-density urban infill; the sensitive restyling of existing buildings; and, the design of high quality cultural institutions throughout Canada and the United States. From its inception, Barton Myers Associates’ commitment to design excellence has been recognized in awards for planning, architecture and interior design. bartonmyers.com
Barton Myers – President. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Barton Myers graduated from the United States Naval Academy and served as a jet-fighter pilot for five years in the United States Air Force, based for three years in England. Following this period he attended architecture courses at Cambridge University and returned to the United States to study architecture. Mr. Myers received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently worked with Louis I. Kahn.
Acoustical Design
Artec Consultants is the global leader in the design and planning of innovative performing arts facilities. Founded in 1970, Artec provides specialized consulting services for facilities of all types from educational facilities, opera houses, concert halls, and multi-purpose theatres, to open air venues and historic renovations.
Artec applies a unique interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach that allows us to provide our clients with harmonious design solutions appropriate for the resources available for each project. Their ability to develop ideas and resolve issues in a coordinated and fully collaborative manner is a prime reason that Artec has led the field with the highest quality results and many innovations in the last 35 years. Damian Doria and Ed Arenius have co-designed many projects for Artec’s clients over the last 12 years and are pleased to provide this experience to the DPAC team. artecconsultants.com
Damian Doria –Partner. Since joining Artec in 1994, Damian Doria has applied his knowledge of acoustical engineering and music to a wide range of projects. His expertise in noise and vibration control, sound isolation, and room acoustics has advanced the quality of Artec’s designs, while his musical training has greatly contributed to Artec’s process of planning performing arts venues.
Edward Arenius –Partner. Edward Arenius’s background in architecture and theatre equipment design, 3-D CAD sightlines, seating, and theatre planning complements his coordination role between the specialists at Artec Consultants Inc and the Design Team.
Theater Planning
Theatre Projects Consultants is an international team of theatre designers, planners, and theatre equipment specialists offering a comprehensive approach to performance space consulting. For 50 years TPC has provided creative design solutions and innovative performance technology to over 1,000 projects in more than 60 countries.
Notable projects include the Tempe Center for the Arts in Arizona (2007) with Barton Myers Associates, Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin (2006), the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003), the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood (2001) the Kimmel Center for the Arts in Philadelphia (2001) and the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in California (1993) with Barton Myers Associates. Theatre Projects is currently consulting on some of the most exciting and important projects in the world including the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, and a new venue for the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida. tpcworld.com
Richard Pilbrow – Founder and Chairman Emeritus. Pilbrow is one of the world’s leading theatre consultants, a theatre, film and television producer, and an internationally known author and stage lighting designer. Notable projects include: the Tempe Center for the Arts, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and a new venue for the New World Symphony.
Theater Costing
DCI was founded in Tampa in 1986, particularly to serve this highly specialized market sector of performing and visual arts facilities’ program analysis, budgeting and capital cost control in a committed way. The company is firmly established in this field and is well-known in Florida, across the U.S. and internationally in this regard. DCI has been very successful in attracting clients whose projects range from modest community theatres to very high profile facilities to house internationally acclaimed orchestras, theatre, opera, dance and ballet companies designed by world class architects, acousticians and theatre planners. DCI has a depth of reliable, personally developed and accurate statistical and cost data on its range of concert halls, theatres, opera houses, multi-purpose halls, performing and visual arts projects per our experience record. dcicost.com
Stewart A. Donnell, FRICS – President. Mr. Donnell has been instrumental in advancing cost control techniques in the USA and Canada for governmental, institutional and private sector clients. His experience has focused on the performing arts field in the past 21 years and in the past 18 years, his experience has been virtually exclusive on theatres, concert halls and multi-purpose halls and other special projects. Mr. Donnell's services customarily commence at program analysis and budgeting, and then continue uninterrupted for the complete pre-construction design stages.
M/WBE Consultant
Anderson and Associates, P.A. (A&A) has been in business for seven years and amongst its service offerings, provides consulting services in the assessments, technical assistance and implementation of Minority/Women Business Enterprise and related programs. Since the inception in 2000, A&A has been engaged to design M/WBE plans, implement program initiatives and foster partnerships and associations between MWBE and non-MWBE firms. The firm has demonstrated the ability to work with diverse communities on numerous projects in the private and public sectors throughout Florida. andersonandassocpa.com
Veronica Anderson – President and Chief Executive Officer. Veronica is a native of Orlando and a graduate of Evans High School. She held leadership positions with the City of Orlando and Orange County in their Minority and Women Business Enterprise Departments and was appointed by the Governor of Florida to lead the State of Florida Minority Business Advocacy and Assistance Office, responsible for implementing a statewide M/WBE Program. As well, she chaired a statewide reciprocal certification task force to create a uniform M/WBE certification application, directory of reciprocal firms and a process for entities to communicate between themselves to recognize the certification status of a business from one governmental entity that would be recognized by all.
Financial Consultant
Strategic Advisory Group is a specialized consulting firm that focuses on assisting municipalities with assessing, planning, financing and developing public assembly facilities such as civic centers, convention centers, headquarter hotels, arenas and performing arts centers. SAG was responsible for the pre-development process of the Orlando/Orange County Convention Center Phase V.
SAG is overseeing the conceptual development phase, including real estate development, business structural development, and financial development (public funding, budget oversight, and fee structures). strategicadvisorygroup.net
Jeff Sachs - Managing Partner. SAG provides advisory services to real estate economic development projects, bringing experience in both public and private real estate development, finance, and operations. Jeff formed SAG in 1998, and prior to that was in the hospitality consulting groups of Ernst & Young and KPMG.
Operations Consultant
AMS Planning & Research (AMS) is a distinguished management consulting practice devoted exclusively to cultural development. The firm's core business is to help guide the planning and development of arts facilities, and to assist in the formulation of strategic and long-range plans for arts programs and projects.
AMS has been retained to work with OPAC's team to develop consensus positions on areas such as governance, programming, operating risk, and operational finances. In addition AMS will provide an operating forecast, projecting operating revenues and expenses.
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Steven A. Wolff, CMC - Principal. Steven, is the founding Principal of AMS Planning & Research Corp. and Audience Insight LLC. For 25 years, Steven has provided counsel to leading arts and entertainment enterprises in the planning and development of capital facilities, strategic initiatives and arts market and consumer research.
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