Mansfield entrepreneur and former Ohio lawmaker Jay Goyal appeared on the Oct. 27 episode of News Man Weekly, where hosts Carl Hunnell, Zac Hiser and Hayden Gray discussed business and downtown revitalization. According to the episode description, Goyal and Snehal Patel are pursuing a $10 million full-service boutique hotel in downtown Mansfield. The plan calls for converting the former Holiday Inn on Park Avenue West; the source describes an expected summer 2027 opening.
The episode also addressed the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court Citizens United decision, which the source ties to Goyal's tenure in the General Assembly, and followed a Richland Source investigation into dark money with discussion of campaign-finance transparency.
Separately, the program's headlines segment covered a reopened section of the B&O Trail, where the source says the road remains under construction until Oct. 30; an asbestos discovery that the source says complicated West Park Shopping Center demolition; and debate over a proposed downtown Mansfield camping ban. It also noted a Land Bank change order for additional asbestos abatement at West Park and included a Halloween-themed segment.