Tahoe Beach Club: The Green Versus The Trailer Park
The latest luxury project to ruffle feathers on the shores of Lake Tahoe is the Tahoe Beach Club. The new development is a planned project of condos and estate homes to be located on the site of the existing Tahoe Shores Mobile Home Park, a fact that upsets and uproots the 30 remaining residents of the park. The developers, who plan to sell the 124 condominiums at over $1 million each, are constructing a green-friendly project that will include a water treatment system. The $200 million to $250 million project will have stone-and-wood lodges with lofts and porches and there will be a private beach club including a fitness center, snack bars, restaurant and a private sandy beach. The residents of the trailer park have been offered various buyout plans including a $5,000 payment, a move to another park or the fair appraised value of their trailers but are currently holding firm even though they know they will inevitably be forced to move.
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shieldsbrown Jan 3rd 2009 1:13PM
This sort of thing sucks. I live in a small southern California beach town, where a few years ago the city sold the land occupied by a similar mobile home park to a developer that built a big bloated hotel and condo complex. Outcome: once again, a chunk of beautiful coastline is now available only to the uber-rich. All over the world nice places to live are cynically and deliberately turned over to rich bastards, whilst families and kids are relegated to East Armpit. Feh.
KIZDAR Jan 8th 2009 5:22PM
Except for the beach at this Beach Club is open to the public and not a private beach.