Developers moving in on Florida mobile home parks

Not so long ago, Rainbow Court mobile home park was a peaceful, pleasant community of senior citizens.

Today it is a Mad Max, dystopian landscape of broken and abandoned trailers.

Windows are shattered, some hammered over with plywood. Doors open to rooms stripped of everything that could be carted away. All is eerily quiet but for the occasional shouts of one man drunkenly accusing another of stealing what little is left.

Last year, a Dallas-based developer bought Rainbow Court and the neighboring Brightside Mobile Home Park in eastern Pasco County. The motive becomes obvious by looking just beyond their borders.

Behind them is a Beall's and Tractor Supply Co. Next door is a Walmart Supercenter. Across busy Highway 301 sits a shopping plaza with Ross, Arby's and TJ Maxx.

Once the trailers have been removed, the eight acres they've occupied for decades are planned to be home to an ALDI grocery and possibly a movie theater.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/realestate/developers-moving-in-on-florida-mobile-home-parks/2222856

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Happened to one of the trailer parks that I used to live in a long time ago. Now its a strip mall with a Ross, Publix, LA Fitness, Olive Garden, and all the other name brands that you see on TV.