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Ashly Anderson

Senior Design Manager

aanderson@tampasdowntown.com
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Ashly Anderson, LEED AP, is the Senior Design Manager for Tampa Downtown Partnership. In her position, Ashly is responsible for managing design development for both external and internal functions of the organization. Through brand consistency and collaboration with staff, she ensures design excellence in print materials, online graphics, and Downtown Tampa physical improvements funded by the organization. She also manages the Partnership’s Storefront & Sidewalk Café and Public Space Activation grant programs.
Ashly joined the Tampa Downtown Partnership in 2013 as the Placemaking and Urban Design Manager. In that position, she worked to program, activate, and promote Tampa’s Downtown using principles of design and placemaking to establish public-private collaboration in public spaces.
Active within the community, Ashly served as the 2016 President of the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, a 49 year-old art festival held in Downtown Tampa, and as a Board Director for the Downtown Tampa YMCA. She also served on an expert technical assistance panel for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Communities by Design Sustainable Design Assessment Team in 2015. Since 2012, Ashly has acted as Adjunct Design Faculty at the Art Institute of Tampa, educating bachelor degree seeking interior design students. She has been published by the National Civic Review, International Downtown Association, and Architect Magazine. Ashly holds a Master of Urban & Community Design from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design from the Art Institute of Tampa. A native of Florida, she lives in the Tampa Heights neighborhood in a 100-year-old home with her husband and infant daughter.

My Favorite Thing to Do in Downtown

I have so many favorite things to do in Downtown! For date nights, my husband and I love to eat delicious Italian food at Cena in the Channel District, especially the risotto and Bolognese sauce with pasta. On special occasions, we catch a Broadway show at the Straz Center. If we are hosting people from out of town, showing off the skyline from the river on a Eboat is a must. And every year we have a family tradition of attending the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, which has an almost 50-year-tenure in Downtown Tampa!

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