Historic cultural sites frequently have site specific problems that have both a large impact on the preservation and on the appropriate conservation of the site, as well as create major blocking factors in making the site functionally and sensitively responsive to 21st Century requirements for Sustainable Mixed Use. This in itself creates huge problems in preparation for removing the property from the commercial environment and restoring it to a cultural usage, all be it, often with serious but tastefully respectful mixed use capabilities.

It is the development of Sensitive Mixed Use Capabilities that often makes the ultimate deciding factor in determining whether a site can be successfully preserved for a particular cultural activity, or mix of activities.

Achieving a viable result requires the combined creative professional skills, energies and experience of a mixture of professionals, ranging from art historians and even musicologists - to archeologists, preservation architects, specialized construction and engineering experts, managers and administrators, as well as financial experts seasoned in making viable busines plans that can be financed and are convincingly 'sustainable,' even in the dearth periods of low or no outside supporting funding, from whatever sources.