PARK PORTLAND PROJECT - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Executive Director of the East Town Business Partners

Dan Collison is the Executive Director of the East Town Business Partnership and 2020 Partners, Director of Downtown Partnerships for the mpls downtown council, and Lead Pastor at First Covenant Church, Minneapolis. Collison spends most of his days bringing people together across sectors through inter-disciplinary work for the explicit purpose of promoting human flourishing and building diverse community. As a civic leader he has been instrumental in providing strategic leadership for the East Town Business Partnership amidst unprecedented district redevelopment, catalyzing new business growth and forging new strategic collaborations between business leaders, civic leaders, and the residential communities of the East Town and North Loop districts. Collison was a 2015 recipient of Minnesota Business magazine's (Real) Power 50 awards, an annual list of 50 remarkable business leaders. And, in 2010 Metro Magazine listed him in the "Top 100" List of people, places, and things making a positive impact in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region.