Greg Davies, former chief of staff for Mayor Andrew J. Ginther, has been named CEO of the Columbus Downtown Development Corp. and Capitol South.
Amy Taylor, who had been CDDC s and Capitol South s COO, has been named president. Taylor has been with the organizations for 14 years.
Davies and Taylor were appointed by the CDDC and Capitol South board to replace former President and CEO Guy Worley, whose last day was Monday. Davies and Taylor begin their new roles June 14.
Davies was Ginther s first chief of staff in 2015, helping him put together his cabinet. More recently, he has been vice president of planning and development for the Columbus Partnership, which has recently taken a more-active role in Downtown development.
Columbus is already on track to beat last year's record number of homicides. As of Friday evening, 81 lives have been taken in the city in 2021. doubling the number of homicides this time last year. Friday night, people met at the Ohio Statehouse for an "End the Violence" rally. "A mother who loses a child to murder, we will never be the same," Malissa Thomas-St. Clair, founder of Mothers of Murdered Columbus Children said. "My son is in a box..
Columbus Police continue investigating Saturday’s shooting at Bicentennial Park that left a 16-year-old girl dead and five other teenagers and young adults wounded.
“We know Columbus is not the only city seeing an increasing spike in violent crime,” Mayor Andrew Ginther said at a briefing Monday. “Far too often these tragedies involve youth as both victims and assailants.”
The Columbus shooting took place just hours before three people were killed and three others were wounded outside a bar in Youngstown, in northeast Ohio. Officials say the Columbus shooting was the city’s 77th homicide of the year.
The incident began after police received reports of a private event promoted on social media that was being held in Bicentennial Park on Saturday night.