Tahoe Beach Club: The Green Versus The Trailer Park

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jan 3rd 2009 at 8:02AM

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.

Tags: development, lake tahoe, LakeTahoe, nevada, tahoe beach club, TahoeBeachClub

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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.