Melinda Moulton | CEO/Redeveloper

802-864-7999

Melinda@mainstreetlanding.com

as of 1/1/2012

Melinda Moulton has been involved in environmental and socially conscious redevelopment since 1983. Along with her partner, Lisa Steele, Melinda has devoted the last 29 years of her life to creating a new model for development. This model includes a “team approach to design, development, and construction” philosophy. Melinda provided the leadership to produce a 25-year incremental redevelopment project for the Burlington, Vermont Waterfront and spearheaded 250,000 square feet and thirty million dollars of built environment on Burlington’s Waterfront.

Melinda chaired the Boards of the Burlington Parking & Transportation Council, Burlington Business Association, Vermont Retail Association, and The Intervale Center. She served on the Boards of the YMCA, Lund Family Center, Chittenden East School District, Opportunities Credit Union, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, the Orton Family Foundation, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, and the Vermont Arts Council.  Melinda co-chaired the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Campaign in 2011.

 Melinda served on the Regional Affairs Committee of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, and has been a strong advocate for the return of the passenger rail to Union Station in Burlington. She is a member of the Vermont Business Roundtable and serves on the Advisory Councils of the Vermont Green Building Network, University of Vermont’s 2020 “Leading By Design” Sustainability Task Force, the Childhood Hunger Council of Chittenden County, and the Steering Committee for the Burlington Legacy Project. She presently serves on the Boards of Audubon Vermont, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, and The Vermont Folklife Center.  For twelve years Melinda has and continues to host CCTV’s Channel 17 Live @ 5:25 p.m. tv show entitled “On the Waterfront with Melinda” where she conducts monthly interviews with people in Vermont who are serving their community through extraordinary vision, commitment, and hard work in an effort to make our state a better place to live. 

Melinda was honored by the Burlington Business Association with the Nathan Harris Award in recognition of her contribution to the economic vitality of downtown Burlington. She was also honored with the Vermont Business for Social Responsibilities Terry Ehrich Award.

Main Street Landing has won the Energy Star for Small Business Award from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, the illustrious Hertzel Pasackow Award for Architectural Excellence, the Chittenden County Historical Society Award, the Burlington Historic Preservation Association Award, the AIA Excellence in Architecture Award, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver (LEED) Award from the U. S. Green Building Council, and the Burlington Development Award.

Melinda, as CEO and redeveloper of Main Street Landing, endeavors to support the arts and local culture, provide incubator space for start-up local businesses, nurture social responsibility, and educate people about environmental and social consciousness. Her sustainability agenda of ecological integrity, economic security, individual empowerment, and social well-being is recognized throughout the country as the way of the future for design, development, construction, and good business practice in the area of built-environment development. Melinda lectures across the country on her work.