NEWBURYPORT — The following individuals are members of the Downtown Group:
Jonathan Woodman: Local architect and one of the pioneer redevelopers of dilapidated Inn Street buildings in the early 1970s. Still maintains an office on Inn Street.
Jack Bradshaw: former director and member of the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority during the downtown's rehabilitation in the late 1960s to early 1970s.
Stuart Dawson: principal and landscape architect of Sasaki Associates of Boston. Sasaki Associates was the firm employed in the 1970s to design the improvements and amenities downtown.
Richard Sullivan: former mayor, also one of the pioneer redevelopers of one of Inn Street's buildings.
Mark Welch: president of the Newburyport Institution for Savings
John Morris: member of the NRA, a managing director at Boston-based investment firm Harbourvest Partners, LLC.
John Leary: financial consultant, trustee of the Institution for Savings, son of the late Jack Leary, who owned the Coca-Cola Company in Newburyport
Esther Sayer: owner of the Inn Street Barber Shop, former chairwoman of the Chamber of Commerce
Byron Matthews: Newburyport mayor during the late 1960s and 1970s, was instrumental in implementing Newburyport's downtown revitalization
David Zinck: City electrician who has helped get several key problems fixed in Inn Street's underground electrical wiring.
Rick Baker: owner of plumbing supply company in the industrial park that has donated material for repairs.
John Hartnett: local contractor, assisting in preparing for the improvements to Inn Street
