July 18, 2002

Dallas Business Journal
Downtown Partnership names executive director

The Downtown Partnership Inc. has hired Nancy Hormann as its first permanent executive director to lead the group's continuing efforts to revamp a 10-block area of downtown Dallas.

Hormann will begin her duties Aug. 1, replacing Dallas attorney Susan Mead, who has served as the organization's part-time interim executive director since its inception. Mead will continue working with the partnership, while focusing on her law practice with Jenkens & Gilchrist P.C.

Hormann was formerly executive director for the Sacramento Downtown District and worked at the City Center Partnership in San Francisco, where she managed a program to create the Union Square Business Improvement District.

She will be responsible for helping rebrand the 10-block area surrounding Main Street, once the principal retail area of Dallas.

The Downtown Partnership, formed to develop a coordinated approach to attract retailers and restaurateurs to the area, includes such downtown stalwarts as Neiman Marcus.