Director – Kay Moore
Director 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 Executive Committee

President - Harry McClendon, BB&T Bank
Vice President -Kevin Phillips, Superior Bank
Secretary - Heather Hicks Copeland, Hicks Family Shoes
Treasurer - Judy Atkins, The Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts
Immediate Past President – Ralph Lane, Alabama Power Company
Willie Maise
Sylvia Smith, Alabama Power Company/The Stone Market
Carole Williams, The Gadsden Times
Dusty Stinson, Coosa Outfitters
Lynn McCain, McCain Law Firm
Inez Fambrough, Fambrough Drapery & Design
Art Segers, The Messenger
Dr. Jean Pugliese
Bart Watts, Gadsden Christian Bookstore
John Ray, Exchange Bank
Jack Page, State Representative Ex-Officio