Fri
Jan 5 2007
09:26 pm

Residents of a Palm Beach County trailer park are being enticed to sell. Developers are chomping at the bit to build more condos in South Florida. I suppose for that kind of money the residents can just buy a condo on the beach. Not the same though. In high-rise condos you don't get to "cruise the narrow streets on golf carts, passing palm trees and tiny, neatly manicured yards". I knew we should have kept our house when we moved. Shoulda, coulda, woulda.

This will be one of the differences in SoKno once they get done, that is if they ever get done. Cute little neighborhoods will be come brick or aluminum siding 3-4 story boxes with a completely different type of community. Very little grass and many more cars per square mile. Ah, well, progress. Or is it?

Up Goose Creek's picture

Lottery

The last line in the article says it all. The residents won't see any money until 2009. By then the bubble will be burst, the development company in receivership and the trailers will be overgrown with weeds.

That guy with the empty pockets is more likely to win the lottery than see any money from this.

I can relate to the part about the intense sense of community. I have never felt so interconnected as I have in the last few months. So the new urbanist principal is to re-create this sense of community but it will be like trying to re-create "woodlands" in a development after you've destroyed the real thing.

Les Jones's picture

Saw a piece on the news

Saw a piece on the news about this tonight. When we were in Fort Myers a couple years ago there was a trailer park on the water near the touristy area. High rise condos just down the road were going for half a million dollars per unit.

www.lesjones.com

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