Cliff Williams / TPI Spencer Mann is the property owner of this shopping center just north of the Eclectic town limits on Highway 63. He says the town and its officials have tried to harm the tenants through unfounded requests for water meters and wanting them to move to downtown.
Cliff Williams 334-740-1116
Spencer Mann owns businesses and invests in real estate in and around Eclectic and beyond.
The entrepreneur said recent actions by Eclectic Mayor Guy Sanders have gone beyond duties of the position. Sanders admits to visiting Mann’s property just north of town limits but still in the Eclectic police jurisdiction to check on business licenses. Sanders has now been “trespassed” from the property in question for what the mayor has called doing town business.
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