Reading Terminal Market Elects New Chairman of the Board

The Board of Directors of the Reading Terminal Market Corporation today elected Albert A. Mezzaroba to serve as its new chairman. Mr. Mezzaroba succeeds Ricardo M. Dunston, who stepped down from the post in January after six and one-half years of service. The position of board chairman is an unpaid, volunteer position with a term that runs co-terminus with that of the Mayor of Philadelphia.
Mr. Mezzaroba is currently of counsel to Walker Bowman PC, a Philadelphia-based law firm. Until August 2008, Mr. Mezzaroba served as Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, a position he had held since February 2003 after serving on its board of directors. Under Mr. Mezzaroba’s leadership, the Convention Center embarked on a major expansion project in order to double the Center’s present size. Previously, Mr. Mezzaroba served as Chief Legal Counsel for the Hon. Anna Verna, President of the City Council of Philadelphia. Mr. Mezzaroba is a native Philadelphian who earned his J.D. from the Temple University School of Law and is an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association

The Reading Terminal Market Corporation is a not-for-profit corporation created in 1994 for the sole purpose of managing the historic Reading Terminal Market. The Corporation is charged with the mission to preserve the architectural and historical character, and function, of the Market as an urban farmers’ market. The Market is governed by volunteer, unpaid, 7-member board of directors that includes representatives of the Mayor of Philadelphia, the City Council of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, the Reading Terminal Market Merchants’ Association, the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, and the Reading Terminal Market Preservation Fund.