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Hotelier to offer public Q&A session Tuesday night in Mason City

Music Man Square

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.

Google Street Map showing last known office of G8 development in Southern California
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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.

Brett Schoneman, realtor and councilman

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.

Bookmeyer: Won’t stop till a hotel is built.

NIT will report on the Q&A session Tuesday night.

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