Posted on April - 18 - 2010
Memphis Center City Commission narrows presidential candidates to eight
A committee seeking a new Center City Commission chief on Tuesday named a short list of eight candidates: four locals who have histories with the CCC and four out-of-town residents.
The search committee led by board chairwoman Jennifer Hagerman voted to conduct face-to-face interviews with:
Scott Adams, chief urban redevelopment officer for the city of Las Vegas and former CCC assistant executive director in the 1980s.
Thomas C. Chatmon Jr., executive director of Orlando’s Downtown Development Board/Community Redevelopment Agency.
Andy L. Kitsinger, Center City senior vice president, planning and development.
Paul L. Krutko Jr., chief development officer, city of San Jose, Calif., since 2002, and fellow with the International Economic Development Council.
Myron Lowery, Memphis City Councilman, interim mayor last year and former CCC board member.
Rick Masson, executive director, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, and former Memphis finance director, chief administrative officer and CCC board member. Masson has announced plans to leave the conservancy.
Paul Morris, shareholder with Martin, Tate, Morrow & Marston attorneys and immediate past chairman of the CCC.
Frank W. Robinson, town manager, Apple Valley, Calif.
Center City oversees planning and development of Downtown and a larger central business improvement district. It’s directed by a board appointed by city and county governments.
The candidates were selected from among 20 applicants deemed best qualified for the position from which CCC president and CEO Jeff Sanford is retiring effective June 30. Sanford’s salary is $155,000 a year.
Among those not making the interview cut were insiders Jerome Rubin, a former councilman who is CCC vice president, operations; Eric Robertson, CCC chief administrative officer; former CCC staffer Lee Warren; and Memphians John Lawrence, a former CCC staff member, and Mason Kauffman.
Head-hunting consultant David Smith said two female applicants weren’t deemed sufficiently qualified for the short list. The list includes two African-Americans, Lowery and Chatmon.
Chatmon and Robinson have served on the International Downtown Association board.
Chatmon recently served as lead negotiator for a planned $50 million mixed-use redevelopment of Downtown Orlando’s historically African-American Parramore district.
Robinson, before Apple Valley, was president of The Woodlands Township, a town center improvement district created from scratch in Texas.
Adams has held economic and community development jobs in Fort Lauderdale, New Orleans and Virginia since he served under John Dudas at Center City from 1982 to 1986.
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