Patriot Meetings at the old Gander Mountain: What they didn't discuss at the Grand Traverse County Commissioner's Meeting

Patriot Meetings at the old Gander Mountain: What they didn’t discuss at the Grand Traverse County Commissioner’s Meeting

Thursday , 28, January 2021 Up North Progressive MAGA, Sad!, Trumpenreich Leave a comment

Over five hours of public comment today couldn’t oust Ron Clous or Rob Hentschel from the Grand Traverse County Board of Commissioners. Ron never apologized for brandishing a weapon while Keli MacIntosh spoke during the public comment period of the January 20, 2021 Board of Commissioners meeting.

While nothing was accomplished during the main event, there was another conversation going on in a live chat on Facebook where Up North Live streamed the meeting.

What an interesting question. Let’s find out if Ron Clous has any connection with the closed Gander Mountain on US 31 in Traverse City.

The “now empty Gander Mountain” Up until November of 2019 was a Gander Outdoors. Gander Mountain filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and another company bought up the stores and rebranded them. Other parts of the shopping complex are still occupied.

The property according to LARA is incorporated as Grand Traverse Market Place LLC. The address is 3500 Marketplace Circle B off South US Highway 31 in Traverse City.

Check out the name of the resident agent. William F. Clous. Bill Clous owns a construction company in Traverse City, Eastwood Custom Homes located on 848 South US Highway 31 in Traverse City.

Meet Bill’s team:

Bill is President of Eastwood Custom Homes. His brother, Ron, is Vice President.

Bill Clous created quite a name for himself in the two thousand aughts when he purchased a piece of forested wetland, cleared it, told the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality he cleared it because he intended to farm it, then announced he was building apartments for retirees.

Back to the question. Bill Clous who owns Eastwood Custom Homes also owns Grand Traverse Marketplace where the empty Gander Mountain/Outdoors now sits. His brother, Ron Clous, is his business partner.

If Ron likes to brandish assault weapons at retired nurses and owns property where “patriot meetings” take place to “train for the civil war,” this is nothing anyone on the Grand Traverse Board of Commissioners should be laughing at.