Just two days after one of the most successful events in Finley Stadium history, and with less than two months to the end of what he says is one of the most financially successful fiscal years in the venue’s history, Chris Thomas is stepping down as executive director of The Stadium Corp.
Saturday night’s Kane Brown homecoming concert drew more than 15,000 paying fans and Thomas said he believes the number to be closer to 17,000 in actual attendance. He also said it was the top-selling show for a single act in area history, and for him, pulling off the event was the final item on his to-do list, so he said the timing is right to move on.
Stadium Corp. board chairman Mike Davis said pulling off the concert was impressive enough, but Thomas and staff also managed to load in more than 140 vendors and thousands of attendees into First Horizon Pavilion on Sunday for the annual Mother’s Day celebration while Brown’s crew broke down the staging it had taken all week to build.
“Chris has done a tremendous job,” Davis said via phone.
“We are in as good a position as we’ve ever been, if not better.”