MASON CITY – A hotelier vying for the opportunity to build a hotel in downtown Mason City is offering a chance to answer questions from the public Tuesday.
A Q & A public forum will be held Tuesday, March 14th from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at The Music Man Square with David Rachie from Gatehouse Capital.
Gatehouse Capital and G8 Development have made proposals to Mason City to build hotels in downtown Mason City.
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G8 Development has been cozy with Mayor Eric Bookmeyer for years as he sought a hotel for downtown. Promises were made as early as 2013 that ground would be broken on a hotel west of city hall. Bookmeyer and Chodur have thus far failed to deliver, and the city has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in design and legal fees plus untold countless city employee man hours in pursuit of Bookmeyer’s dream. Philip Chodur’s office is in a trailer park in Southern California.
Meanwhile, Bookmeyer’s handpicked protege, Brett Schoneman, has blasted the proposal from Gatehouse Capitol, telling city hall mouthpiece John Skipper the proposal is “not palatable” to the public, despite the fact there are many unknowns and that Schoneman just got the proposal days ago.
Many citizens are no longer buying what Bookmeyer and his lackeys are selling. His pig plant was chased away, his last crony lost in a city council election, his plea to citizens to raise their own taxes was shot down by voters who are waking up to his ways, he’s been outed as a bully (see upcoming bombshell story in Des Moines Register), the Globe Gazette is sheding employees – essentially, the gig is up and the house of cards is falling down around him. After four years of pouring precious dollars into a bottomless well for a hotel the city can clearly do without, citizens are not sure if Eric Bookmeyer is playing with a full deck, or just wants to get a job before he’s chased out of office.
NIT will report on the Q&A session Tuesday night.
27 thoughts on “Hotelier to offer public Q&A session Tuesday night in Mason City”
Spending others $ is a form of entertainment apparently, Mason City needs a frugal Mayor and city council not a Las Vegas gambler with a host of yes gatekeepers to back the chronic gamblers appetite.
He claims he is not running for re-election. Which we can hopefully assume means he is moving to another community to aid their destruction.
Silver tongue’s will speak to lead Mason City down “Taxpit Path”.
With Brett Schoneman involved you know you are getting a screw job. This councilman cares nothing for Mason City. He is totally in this for himself and to make money. Anything this realtor is involved in I would never be for. How this no good got elected is beyond reason. After taking to him about all of this I walked away with a bad feeling.
Citizens should be protesting this whole hotel and “Taxpit Path” Schoneman and Bookmeyer are leading us down.
As a big corporate hotel, why do they need anything, aside from permits, from the city in order to build? They should get NO money to finance their own profit maker. That’s whats wrong with this world.
According to the Gatehouse representative in the meeting tonight, they were asked to submit a proposal, by a local citizen. Didn’t say who, that I heard.
everyone bend over and grab your ankles, and get ready, its cumming
That’s a nice office, with low overhead. This is a shady deal all the way around.
“…been outed as a bully (see upcoming bombshell story in Des Moines Register)…”
So what is this “bombshell” stuff about Eric Bookmeyer?
The leading bullies in this county are Chris Petersen and his
group of cult followers in that prestage group. Their leader is a closest racist and a previous environmental violator in his own hog farm.
Go to Michigan, Rick, please. You promised.
Check out this website, ICCI Exposed. ICCI Exposed backs chris Petersen and his criminal activity including breaking & entering into the National Pork Producers headquarters in Washington D.C. Their character is nothing more than a closest criminal
Pure BS
“Pure BS” as some in denial of the FACTS would say
The shady ways behind this hotel deal frighten me. People die in this town when they go agaisnt the wrong folks. Evil lurks. Who will be the hero this time and will they survive?
Good point. Maybe Eric should find an investor to build a mammoth funeral parlor and crematorium, build it in the south mall parking lot. It would get all the perks of fresh new customers thanks to Eric and Rick and the nice guys down at the construction company. There’s your private investment for the “death renaissance” we’re promised.
says someone in denial of the facts.
Why would we want to spend our tax money so he can make a profit on his hotel. The average taxpayer gains NOTHING from this.
Gatehouse offer us a public venue.to talk about their plan. This is unheard of transparency. Will the council be there to get.caught up on the FACTS? Or, maybe they already made up their minds, like last spring. hmmmmmm…
The taxpayers of Mason City are going to have to approve between 7 and 10 million in public spending to make Gatehouse’s proposal work. The City will also be on the hook for managing the museum. Gatehouse is also asking for a developer’s fee. That’s another way of saying, they are guaranteed a profit and the City is going to pay for it. Is anyone here willing to vote yes for this proposal?
Keep on offering the Kool Aid Kevin. No one is drinking it anymore.
You are too busy drinking the Trump Kool-Aid by the gallon
Still blowing the council and kissing the mayors ass aren’t you?
If anybody knows from experience about blowing and kissing ass, it would be you LVS, you old pussy.
When he takes out his false teeth and plants those lips, ooh la la !
Bookee spent 7 million dollars on that parking ramp I read but I can’t seem to find it when I want to park and go shop at Damons.
This just scares the crap out of me and my wife. We’re just making ends meet while this loose cannon mayor runs amok.
Heck let’s get Trump involved. We could use a Trump Tower downtown as much as we need the ice cube factory in the mall.