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Industrial Park Land Was NOT Sold Yet. Jennifer Conklin Lied.

Last week we were treated to this exchange on Facebook when a local citizen mused out loud that he night open a cigar shop….

She says it with such authority! The property has been purchased!!

Only it hasn’t been purchased.

So one of two things is true: Jennifer was either deliberately lying to scare off any “competition,” or she had no clue about anything and just made it up on the spot. A fabrication, if you will.

According to the City, the property has NOT been sold. The original “plan” continues uninterrupted. Of course, the plan has not been followed at all, since there is no RV/Boat storage in operation over there – just some random shit that violates the $7,000 agreement drawn up by the City’s hack lawyer JC Brown.

Don’t forget that Martin Rod and Custom had the taxpayers shell out $38,300 to clean the site up so he could run an RV and boat storage business – but as you can see, that never happened. More tax dollars down the toilet:

Zero boats. Zero RVs.

In essence, Martin gets a free option to buy the land in the future for $165,000 – but it has NOT happened yet, according to the City secretary.

My advice to Rich Drettwan? Go for it, man! Open that cigar shop NOW and beat them to the punch. God knows there are enough empty buildings in town you could use!

So Who Is Lying About Industrial Park? Battle Of The Cigar Shops!

We are coming up on the June “deadline” for “Phase II” of the Industrial Park agreement. You know, that project where Phase I was completely ignored and the details of the agreement (which the City paid their hack lawyer $7,000 to create) were violated non-stop from Day One.

“Don’t you even THINK about a cigar shop!!! WE are doing one!!”

The property has been purchased?!? Whoa there! When did THAT happen? I sure didn’t see anything in the City council minutes about that event. Phase One (the RV and boat storage phase) never even happened yet! Nor has any preparations for “food trucks” or the “training facility” that were talked about. Barber shop? Micro-brewery? Those have never been mentioned again since the Mandy Walsh era. I think we can safely say that will never happen.

So, is Jennifer Conklin (who works across the street at Martin Rod & Custom, according to her Facebook page) lying to scare off the competition? Or did Martin ALREADY buy the land – even though they have done absolutely nothing that was promised so far?

I have asked the City secretary that very question….we await an answer.