Feeling ignored and "laughed at," Six Nations protesters again shut down the building Tuesday of four duplexes on Grand River Avenue.
Bricklayers at Mike Quattrociocchi's project left the site after Floyd and Ruby Montour and a handful of supporters arrived at about noon.
The former councillor, owner of Mayberry Homes, was in Hamilton at the time the native group stepped onto the land.
The Montours also stopped work at the same site in September after which Quattrociocchi said he wouldn't pay a $50,000 fee requested by the newly launched Haudenosaunee Development Institute and compared the request to Mafia extortion.
"We heard some Brantford developers were laughing at us," said Floyd Montour, "so we came to pay a few people a visit."
Montour said he and his wife planned to go to other city development sites through the rest of the week.
"We are here to make a statement to Mike," said Ruby Montour. "He has to negotiate with the HDI and come to a conclusion. He's been talking to them since the summer but there's been no conclusion."
The Montours said they feel Quattrociocchi is trying to keep talking until his eight-unit housing development is finished.
For his part, Quattrociocchi was upset about the work stoppage.
"I can't do this anymore," he said in a phone interview. "This is very taxing for me emotionally."
Calling himself one of the "smallest developers," Quattrociocchi expressed his frustration at being singled out again after a two-week shutdown in September.