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Ms. Elizabeth Stevens, LPM

Downtown Mobile Alliance

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Downtown Mobile Alliance

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Elizabeth P. Stevens President and Chief Executive Officer Downtown Mobile Alliance Elizabeth P. Stevens has served as the President and CEO of the Downtown Mobile Alliance since its formation in 2005. The Downtown Mobile Alliance is a consortium of three not-for-profits working to support the development of Downtown Mobile. The Business Improvement District, or “BID,” is a property owner-funded special assessment district that provides enhanced services to the property owners within the district’s 75 block area. The BID provides intensive cleaning, hospitality, and beautification services along the property owners’ sidewalks and economic development and promotion activities for the district’s property owners. The Alliance also operates a business membership organization charged with promoting downtown business expansion through marketing and policy work, and the philanthropic Main Street Mobile to raise grants and donations for special projects including a land bank and revolving fund for affordable housing. Ms. Stevens has worked in downtown development since 1985 in her native South Carolina as well as Alabama. She started the Main Street Program in Conway, SC in 1985 and then moved to Mobile in 1990 to run the Main Street Program for the City of Mobile. During this time she achieved certification in the Main Street 4-Point Approach by the National Main Street Center, at that time a division of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 2017, Ms. Stevens was appointed to serve as a Trustee to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. She is President of the Barton Academy Foundation and Immediate Past President Rotary Club of Mobile. She is a Paul Harris Fellow and a Paul Harris Society member. Ms. Stevens serves on the board of directors of Springboard to Success, Visit Mobile, and Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Stevens is a graduate of the 2014-15 class of Leadership Alabama. Ms. Stevens is a native of Charleston, SC, a graduate of the College of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Minor in American Studies.