The executive director of Made in Old Town, the shoe manufacturing project that’s struggled to deliver on promises it made to revitalize a wide swath of the Old Town neighborhood, has resigned.
Liz Rodgers, a longtime Nike executive who joined Made in Old Town late last year, wrote in an automated email response that she has “resigned from my role as executive director of Made in Old Town, effective immediately.” It’s not clear when exactly she resigned.
Rodgers joined the ailing shoe startup late last year as it was struggling to fulfill its big promises to city and state officials about its vision for the beleaguered Old Town neighborhood. The project’s leaders promised they would would revitalize the area by raising some public and mostly private money for a nine-building shoe manufacturing campus…