Lisa Clemmons-Stott, executive director of Downtown Springfield Inc., is leaving her post, according to multiple sources.
The reasons behind her resignation aren’t clear. Clemmons-Stott, who was named DSI director in 2015, did not return two phone calls from Illinois Times. “We will send out a formal statement to the two of you first this afternoon,” she wrote in a text message to Illinois Times and the Springfield Business Journal, which is owned by the same company that publishes Illinois Times.
Contact Bruce Rushton at brushton@illinoistimes.com.
This article appears in Capital City Visitor 2021.
Drama Drama Drama, look at me, I am quitting! Let’s milk this shamelessly as much as possible to make it all about me! This is a Non Profit that also receives direct tax dollars from the city.
Drop the act and tell the public that perhaps you were angry because you promised a permanent street closing.-a promise you could never deliver on and was a bad idea. The Mayor was right on this one to keep the street open.
Thousands of Downtown have reopened their closed streets gotten rid of stop lights replaced them with stop signs retuned of angled parking and 2 way streets. WHY ? Because because all the former has proven to kill business. Plenty of business left Downtown before Coved 19.