Planning

PROS approaches planning with an open mind, allowing community needs, market conditions, operational realities, stakeholder input, and financial sustainability to shape the outcomes. Our philosophy is that the planning process should identify what the community values most, where gaps exist, and how the agency can best align services, programs, parks, facilities, staffing, and resources to meet current and future needs. This approach results in a dynamic planning tool that is objective, defensible, and useful for guiding priorities, supporting future funding opportunities, strengthening partnerships, and informing long-term investment decisions while ensuring services remain equitable, responsive, and adaptable as community needs evolve.

System Master Planning

PROS system master plans connect community needs, level of service analysis, operations, funding, and implementation into one clear roadmap. Each plan is built to help agencies prioritize investments, support future funding, and align parks, facilities, programs, and services with long-term community expectations. PROS has completed over 500 master plans for parks and park systems that have been successfully implemented and driven over $5 billion worth of capital investment.

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Park Master Planning

PROS supports landscape architect and design firms in the park master planning process to ensure the master plan balances community aspirations with site conditions, recreation trends, operations, maintenance, and funding realities. PROS has completed over 450 plans that involved operations, maintenance, and funding development components.

Strategic Planning

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Business Planning

PROS understands how parks, facilities, programs, and special-use assets must perform operationally and financially. Our team evaluates market demand, cost recovery, pricing, staffing, partnerships, and revenue opportunities to create practical strategies for improving sustainability and customer service.

Staffing and Succession Planning

PROS evaluates organizational structure, workload, service expectations, and future personnel needs through the lens of real parks and recreation operations. Our recommendations identify optimal staffing models, career pathways, training needs, and leadership transition strategies that strengthen long-term organizational capacity.

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Feasibility Studies

We believe community demand should define programs, programs should inform facility design, and each recommendation should be grounded in objective, defensible analysis. PROS feasibility studies test whether proposed facilities, programs, park improvements, and service models are supported by the market, community, operations, and financial realities. PROS has completed over 400 feasibility studies and business plans, often counseling our clients on how they can shape their projects and their vision around the reality of what is feasible and sustainable to help agencies make confident investment decisions.