About Us

 Director – Kay Moore                                                                                                Marketing & Development Manager – Brittany Abrams Megois

Our Mission

Downtown Gadsden Inc. is a nonprofit community partnership dedicated to fostering the economic development of Downtown Gadsden through a comprehensive process of revitalization that seeks to protect, enhance and promote its architecture and historical heritage.

Our Goals

  • Promote the goods and services offered by downtown businesses.
  • Establish downtown as the art and culture center of the Gadsden metropolitan area.
  • Promote historic preservation within the context of economic development.
  • Facilitate the continuation of downtown public improvements.
  • Recruit new businesses to complement the existing retail and service mix and retain existing downtown occupants.
  • Promote downtown Gadsden as a destination.

Downtown Gadsden Board of Directors 

President - Kevin Phillips, Keystone Bank 

Vice President – Jack Page
Secretary - Judy Atkins, Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts
Treasurer - Ralph Lane, Alabama Power
Immediate Past President – Harry McLendon, BB&T
Tripp Collins – Back Forty Beer Company 
Heather Hicks Copeland
Dr. Beverly Dyer – University of Alabama, Gadsden Center
Shane Ellison – City of Gadsden 
Inez Fambrough, Fambrough Drapery & Design 
Lynn McCain, McCain Law Firm 
Dr. Jean Pugliese  
John Ray, Exchange Bank  
Sylvia Smith, The Stone Market 
Dusty Stinson, First Choice Personnel  
Nikki Tinker – Jake’s Music Room
Rhonda Turner – Beauty Ovations   
Carole Williams, The Gadsden Times