The RiverCity Co. has dissolved its subsidiary Chattanooga Downtown Partnership, which for years produced events such as the Nightfall Concert Series, Winter Days & Lights, the 3 Sisters Music Festival and TaleSpin.
With the move, which both sides described as amicable, Carla Pritchard, former director of the partnership, has created a new, privately owned company called Chattanooga Presents. Its first client is RiverCity Co., which has contracted with the new company to produce the Nightfall series.
The free Friday night concerts take place through the spring, summer and fall at Miller Plaza, which is owned by RiverCity Co., a downtown redevelopment group.
Mrs. Pritchard has been the CDP’s only director since it was formed 20 years ago to “bring people downtown and to animate Miller Plaza.”
“We will continue to animate Miller Plaza (with Nightfall) and I think in some new ways also,” said Kim White, president and CEO of RiverCity. “Nightfall has a great following, and that has Carla’s name on it and it will continue seemlessly.”