New head of Greater Ashmont Main Streets is banking on her small business background

Elle Marrone, the new Executive Director of GAMS, was recently featured in the Dorchester Reporter:

Dorchester’s Elle Marrone has dropped the leashes from her former neighborhood dog walking business and grabbed the reins as the new executive director of the Greater Ashmont Main Streets (GAMS) program. She is hoping to help small business owners like herself and grow the district in new and different ways.

Marrone had operated Dorchester Dog Walking for seven years, serving customers from Gallivan Boulevard to Ashmont-Adams to Melville Park, but sold the business in October 2023 to pursue something new and different. That different path has now become the directorship of GAMS, a position she started on Feb. 1.

“Something was missing for me when I sold the business,” she said in a recent interview. “I was surprised at first because the biggest loss for me was the daily connection with my neighbors. … This job is primarily a support system to my neighbors once again, so it was a great fit.”