The chairman of the panel that governs and manages the Chattanooga Convention Center is retiring after 26 years.
Chattanooga businessman Jimmy Hudson, who oversaw the 2003 expansion that more than doubled the convention center’s size, said he plans to announce he’s stepping down from the Carter Street Corp. on Wednesday.
“It has come to a time and place in my life cycle that I need to be doing less rather than more,” he said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “It seemed like good timing for that.”
Hudson, 66, said the convention center is nearly completely recovered from the pandemic that hit it and other similar facilities nationally in 2020.
“Business has returned, and it’s back up on its feet nearly 100%,” he said. “This is part of my timing. It’s a good time leaving on a high note.”