Posted on 07/19/2010 12:34:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Plan to turn trailer park wasteland into gay-friendly resort falls through
A developing group's plan to turn a famous South Florida trailer park into a gay paradise fell through thanks to a family feud, but a new deal has the $80 million project back on track.
Developers G Worldwide were all set to buy the Middle River Trailer Park in Wilton Manors for $2.5 million, but the family that owns the site all couldn't agree on the selling price, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
The trailer park Northeast 24th Street near Dixie Highway, featured in the 1996 movie "Striptease," was in extreme disrepair, with several homes abandoned by their owners, but the squabbling heirs to the park couldn't agree on the deal.
So instead, last week, the company agreed to buy up four acres from a church for their 700,000 square-foot, gay-friendly resort. The First Church of Religious Science, at 1550 Northeast 26th St., sold the property for $3.7 million. The resort will feature a hotel, nightclub, restaurants, art gallery, movie theater and other amenities. "It's better curb appeal," David Holzapfel, COO of G Worldwide, told the Sun-Sentinel. "[The resort will bring] edge and that pop to the street."
Only three people still live in the trailer park, which owes the city $45,000 in code enforcement fines. Manager Sandy Yawt, whose family has owned the park for over 50 years, said the family feud killed the sale.
"Unfortunately, we have a lot of debt," Yawt said. "It has to be sold."
This thread is useless without a Pink Flamingo.
Or a Barnet Franks photo.
Fudge Packer Park ?
Nutsburied Farms ?
I don’t even want to know what constitutes a “gay paradise”...
Colonel, USAFR
For an “oppressed” “people”, homosexuals sure have a lot of money to spend.
This family reminds me of the Obamanation regime, and the rule of our UD (Undocumented President.) totally clueless about things like value, debt, and expecting the most ignorant in society to agree on anything.
It would be the opposite of paradise for the rest of us.
Probably a lot effigy burning of Sarah Palin would be going on.
Fudge Packer Park ?"Turburglar Manor" is all I am submitting to this thread.Nutsburied Farms ?
Now, if you'll all excuse me, I need a bath.
DINKs
Dual Incomes, No Kids
Plus many employers (including government) will give your same sex roommate medical benefits. That ought to be worth a few dollars more in rent.
A Judy Garland film festival in Key West emceed by Ricky Martin.
The only city in the United States with an all-homosexual city council. Mostly old queens retired from the New York area.
By "oppressed," the Gaystapo means that they can't make everyone do their bidding.
Seriously, my mom-in-law Did live in this very same park for over 30 years .. until the day she passed away.
And .. Yes her trailer looked a helluva lot like that one!!
That’s from John Waters’ “Pink Flamingos” (rated X, but released by New Line Cinema), from Baltim’re.
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