The future of Cleveland's West Side Market is taking shape after city leaders announced the founding of the new non-profit governing body for the 111-year-old landmark on Thursday.
The Cleveland Public Market Corporation (CPMC) board will initially be comprised of 15 members, with a maximum of 21 in the future. The search is now underway for a CPMC executive director.
Here are the members of the CPMC's board:
-Dave Abbott, retired president of The George Gund Foundation
-Carrie Carpenter, Senior Vice President, Regional Manager of Corporate Affairs, Huntington National Bank
-Shelly Cayette, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Cleveland Cavaliers
-Amanda Dempsey, previous West Side Market Manager
-Colette Jones, Chief Marketing Officer, Cleveland Foundation
-Henry Hilow, Attorney, Hilow & Spellacy
-Dr. Don Malone, President of Cleveland Clinic's Ohio Hospitals and Family Health Centers
-Kerry McCormack, Ward 3 Councilmember
-Tom McNair, Executive Director, Ohio City Inc.
-Randy McShepard, Vice President of Public Affairs and Chief Talent Officer, RPM -International, founder of Rid-All Green Partnership
-Tom Nagel, retired from DB Schenker
-Jason Russell, Vice President, Operations and Leasing, Bedrock Detroit
-Tanisha Velez, Owner, Cleveland Fresh Microgreens
-Ramat Wiley, Owner, Adun Spice Company
-Ann Zoller, Senior Advisor, Strategy Design Partners
Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb nominated Abbott, Russell, and Wiley to the board. The West Side Market Tenants Association nominated Dempsey, Hillow, and Nagel.
"Establishing CPMC will provide the Market the stability and mission-driven direction it needs to thrive and be preserved as a community asset,” said Bibb in a statement, “I feel confident that this initial board of leaders will set West Side Market on the right path.”
United West Side Market Tenants Association president Don Whitaker said he's been involved in the advisory process. He said vendors didn't want to use their board nominations to join themselves. "We've got to get back to just running our business, focusing on that, and not on the infrastructure of that building because that's what we've been doing for the last five years now," Whitaker said.
Whitaker said the group is still cautiously optimistic, pleased with the progress so far and transition to new management.
"There's so much potential, there's so much that we can do but we're going to do it together with the community, not as a solitary body," CPMC board member Carrie Carpenter told 3News' Bri Buckley: [ Ссылка ] --
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