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Mayor Michael O’Connor says there will be “no action” to acquire extra land for the downtown hotel without a vote of the Board of Aldermen. And the City will abide by its purchasing rules and the state open meetings law … Continue reading →

Mr Mayor: at a recent meeting of the Frederick Eagles club it was revealed that Plamondon Hospitality Partners (Plamondon) has made a $650,000 offer for the Eagles property adjacent to the City-sponsored downtown hotel. Apparently the Eagles land is proposed … Continue reading →

Plamondon has offered the Eagles social club $650,000 for their 100 year old property at 216 East Patrick Street and two small open lots to the immediate west used for car parking. The offer was revealed to Eagles’ members at … Continue reading →

Prominent Frederick area businessman Mark Gaver was convicted on all ten US charges of bank fraud and money laundering by a jury in US District Court today (Aug 1.) His trial lasted eight days. Gaver fabricated a stream of false … Continue reading →

Mark Gaver’s trial on federal charges of bank fraud began today in US District Court at 101 West Lombard St in Baltimore (case #RBD-17-0640.) Gaver served as the first chairman of the City’s Hotel Advisory Committee (HAC) appointed by former … Continue reading →

June 30th the City lost $500,000 it has been touting as state support for the downtown hotel. The State Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) says it is no longer funding the Frederick hotel project. In January 2016 the City … Continue reading →

Mr Mayor, Aldermen: This remains a project in flux, still largely undefined nearly two and a half years after the first City-Plamondon Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of December 2015. According to the schedule attached as Appendix F to the first … Continue reading →

Soon after he first assumed office as Mayor at the beginning of 2010 Randy McClement committed the City to sponsorship of a downtown hotel. It was to be a $45m, three or four year project — due to open by … Continue reading →

The Executive Summary begins with an Overview reporting supposed revisions to the draft new-MOU for the downtown hotel project made in response to comments at the May 23 Workshop. Bullet points describe revisions claimed to have been made “to address … Continue reading →

The cover-up of the hotel Big Fix has gotten worse. The City says it cannot find the key records authorizing issuance on February 19, 2014 of the Request for Proposals for the downtown hotel. Known as RFP14J this solicitation was … Continue reading →