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By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief
SCOTTVILLE — Grammy Award winning rocker Maynard James Keenan said in a recent interview that he plans to move forward soon with placing businesses in some of the buildings he owns in downtown Scottville.
Keenan performs tonight at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids. The Sessanta V2.0 tour features two of his bands, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer. He is also the lead singer of Tool.
Keenan, a 1982 graduate of Mason County Central High School, owns or co-owns four buildings in Scottville including the former Schoenberger/Holden Home Emporium building, the former laundromat building, the former feed mill and the former Gamble’s Hardware/Business Print building.
In an interview with Local Spins, that was published May 25, he said he’s making plans for the buildings he has owned for the past several years.
“I’ve got a few irons in the fire up in Scottville still, so we’re working on a little café up there, and a couple other projects,” he said in the interview. “So that’s going forward at some point when I can find the bandwidth to just dig in for a little bit.”
Keenan resides in Jerome, Az. but owns a home in Custer Township. He and his wife, Lei Li, own and operate the Queen B Vinyl Café in Cottonwood, Az., which sells coffee, lunch and breakfast, vinyl records and canned wines, with a small stage for live music and an attached barbershop. He also owns Four 8 Fried Chicken restaurant, in Cottonwood. Additionally, he owns Caduceus Cellars and Merkin Vinyards, which include tasting rooms in Jerome and Merkin Vineyards Trattoria restaurant in Verde Valley, Az.
Keenan said the café planned for Scottville will be modeled after Queen B, followed by “some kind of distillery, brewery or possibly a cider mill or winery” in his former hometown, which he hopes can be rejuvenated into a quaint tourist town along the lines of Manistee, Ludington or Pentwater.
“(Scottville is) one of those beautiful small towns that, when they put the bypass in, it just (bleeped) it up the ass,” he said. “You know, all these cute little businesses that basically died because they put the bypass in and shoved you over to Walmart and Home Depot.”
Keenan operates his buildings locally with Jeff Barnett of Scottville and Jeff Elliott of Grand Rapids, both also alumni of MCC.
Keenan’s father, Mike, was a teacher and state-decorated wrestling coach at MCC. He passed away last winter. Maynard Keenan can often be seen assisting MCC wrestling teams during their season.
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