Creative Planning, Inc.
Creative Planning, Inc. is a nationally recognized consultant firm with a specialty in strategic and cultural planning. The firm was founded in 1990 to help non-profit, government and corporate clients understand and manage change to their advantage. Bill Bulick joined Creative Planning in 1998 as a Principal and cultural development expert, after nearly 20 years in non-profit, arts and public sector management. He was a founder and producer of the World music Festival, founding Program Director of Pioneer Courthouse Square and Director of the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Bill has spent the last 30 years helping to shape the potential of cultural development and
planning to build prosperous, livable, vital communities, including over a dozen major
cultural planning and assessment projects. He brings particular experience in the
integration of cultural development with broader community building efforts including
economic development, urban revitalization and creative economy/Community strategies.
Bill has worked in communities across the U.S. and Canada and is a frequent speaker at
conferences on many elements of culturally based economic development, public-private
partnerships, livability and sustainability.
Bill Bulick is the lead designer, facilitator, Plan author and client contact for the Pima Cultural Plan: Prompting the Future
Mt Auburn Associates, a leading economic analysis and development firm based in Somerville, Massachusetts, will team with us. Mt. Auburn has worked with scores of urban and rural communities across the country over the last 20 years on broad-based economic development planning efforts involving “cluster” strategy, arts and cultural development, commercial revitalizations, and higher education/ community Partnership.
Michael Kane, Managing Partner of Mt Auburn Associates, will conduct qualitative research on the creative sector in Tucson, meet with TREO leaders, review creative clusters analysis and contribute to white papers, TF protocols and Plan drafts throughout the process.
Beth Siegel, President of Mt. Auburn Associates, will conduct quantitative creative cluster analysis and will review and contribute to white papers and plan drafts.
The Tucson based members of the Creative Planning, Inc. team are:
Maribel Alvarez - Ph.D Folklorist, Research Social Scientist at the University of Arizona Southwest Center and Assistant Research Professor in the English Department
Annabelle Nunez - Librarian, Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona’s Hispanic Center of Excellence and former Program Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council’s Neighborhood Initiatives Program.
