SECRETARY
JoAnn Davis

JoAnn is the MMS Design Committee Co-Lead busy coordinating the efforts of several successful projects: Facade Improvement, the west-end Gateway, Riverwalk, Entrance Features and Wayfinding Signage, to name a few. JoAnn is an Aerospace Engineering graduate from Penn State University and an X-Rocket Scientist for Lockheed Martin where she met her husband Bill Davis, an Electro-Optics Engineer, working together on several exciting space based missile defense programs in the 1980s. She took a personal leave of absence in 1988 to travel the world by bike and backpack, visiting 24 different countries and riding/trekking over 4000 miles. She rode her bike in Tiananmen Square before the tanks arrived, dove the Great Barrier Reef, rode a camel around the Egyptian Pyramids, and crossed the arctic circle at 4AM in broad daylight.

Back to work again for Lockheed, she spent many exciting years working on programs for the FBI, Brazil Federal Police and many international projects that kept her travel bug alive. Finally in 2002, JoAnn left the corporate world to join her husband as an Entrepreneur who had a very successful Engineering business already underway. JoAnn and Bill Davis are the owners of IM Solutions, an Audio/Video/Lighting Design Build company, located in the US1 expansion area of Downtown Melbourne. They are both excited about the future potential of Melbourne and are happy to be back "home" (Bill's home town).

Dano LoPresti

Dano & wife Rita have owned and operated the Christmas Cottage & Gift Shoppe since 1979. They have been active as business people in Downtown Melbourne since 1985 when they purchased and renovated the old "Huggins Hardware" building and created their current holiday destination. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, both Dano & Rita grew up in family owned businesses and have continued that tradition with their own family. Dano's function on the MMS BOD is the Promotions sub-committee lead. Dano also spent time in the US Navy and earned his Bachelor degree at Rollins College.

Contact Dano: 321-725-0270

Michael (Mike) Melhado

Mike is a business and property owner in Downtown. He and his wife Tracy have renovated three buildings in Downtown (2 of which have been vacant for years), and currently own Island Pasta Company & Chowders. Mike is a current member of the Downtown Melbourne Redevelopment Committee, a former President of the Merchants Association, and one of the founding grant writers who established Melbourne Main Street.

Contact Mike: 321-723-1584

Kim Cruickshank

Kim Cruickshank moved from London, England to New York City’s East Village, then here to Brevard County in 1993 where she met her husband Bryan.  Drawing on her travels and life experiences, she opened the British Grocery and Gift shop called Lord Ravenswood Hall in 1996.  That year she held the first Christmas Candlelight Shopping Evening at her store, borrowing on the traditions of villages all over England.  It was a success and she was invited to share her concept at a Downtown Melbourne Meeting.  From there the event evolved into the successful Holiday shopping nights that we now enjoy each December.  In July 2007 she opened a different shop called Mermaid, where the focus is on holistic practices, spirituality, empowerment and relaxation, in an ocean and island atmosphere.  She is getting her certification in Reflexology and has always used herbs, holistic practitioners and organic food and products to heal rather than medicines and products that pollute the body and the earth. 

Contact Kim at (321) 952-2417

Peter Flotz

As a resident of Melbourne Beach for more than 15 years, Mr. Flotz has seen the maturation of our community. As a board member of the Melbourne Main Street organization, he seeks to expand the visibility of Historic Downtown Melbourne both locally and to a tourist market. With his experience in urban planning and engineering, he offers a unique perspective on the emergence of a new Downtown Melbourne. Currently, he leads a development team building the first multi-family residential condominium project in Downtown, known as the Lofts at Waverly. He also serves the chair of the City of Melbourne’s Historic Preservation Board.

Mr. Flotz has worked with cities large and small across the country on the challenges of revitalizing a downtown. He has worked on numerous downtown redevelopment projects including Columbia, South Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina and Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a bachelor of science degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He maintains affiliations  with the American  Institute  of  Certified  Planners, Urban Land  Institute, Eastern  Regional  Chairman,  National  Parking Association, International  Parking  Institute  CAPP Program, American  Planning Association and International  Parking  Institute.