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Before it was destroyed in last year\u2019s fires, the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates was a rare piece of beachfront real estate. The mobile home park provided affordable housing to families unable to buy one of the multi-million dollar homes more typical of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was like paradise,\u201d said Rashi Kaslow, a sailboat rigger who had lived at the property for 17 years. \u201cThere’s nowhere else I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaslow has been living on a boat since his Palisades Bowl home was lost in the fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now that affordable housing could be permanently lost, with owners of the destroyed property now quietly seeking new buyers.<\/p>\n

In a confidential offering memorandum<\/a> obtained by LAist, the former 173-lot mobile home park is being pitched to investors as \u201ca rare blank canvas for transformative development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former residents are still fighting to return to the rent-controlled lots where they hope to rebuild new manufactured homes. But they say the owners have not been clear about the park\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of our residents are already traumatized and still grieving,\u201d said Jon Brown, president of the Palisades Bowl Community Group, an organization formed by displaced residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout the park owners communicating with us, we don’t really know what’s going on,\u201d Brown added. \u201cWe can only remain confident that our government is going to continue to try to protect us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rashi Kaslow stands in a beach parking lot across from the Palisades Bowl mobile home park, where residents’ burned cars still haven’t been removed.<\/p>\n

No price disclosed<\/p>\n

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The Palisades Fire ripped through the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates.<\/p>\n

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Myung J. Chun<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Matthew Wenzel, a broker with the firm Marcus & Millichap, did not share the price the owners are asking for the 861,181-square-foot property. When asked about the former residents, he told LAist, \u201cThe owner is exploring all options for future use of the property.\u201d<\/p>\n

LAist contacted park co-owner Colby Biggs for comment, but did not receive a response. We also received no response after emailing the attorney for co-owner Loretta Biggs.<\/p>\n

According to the sales document, the land is zoned to allow single-family homes with minimum lot sizes of 40,000 square feet.<\/p>\n

Muhammad Alameldin, senior policy advisor at the pro-housing group California YIMBY, said at that size, fewer than two dozen homes could fit on the property. He said redevelopment could involve replacing former residents with much fewer \u2014 and much wealthier \u2014 homeowners.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a shame that these fires happened, they destroyed people’s lives, and now the existing local rules say the only thing that can be built is mansions,\u201d Alameldin said. \u201cThis is one of the last parcels of affordable home ownership in the Palisades area. That’s going to disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n

What rights do residents have?<\/p>\n

Mobile home residents have a unique relationship with park owners. Unlike most renters, they own the structures they live in. But unlike most homeowners, they don\u2019t own their land \u2014 they rent lots from park owners.<\/p>\n

Clemente Mojica, president of the affordable housing nonprofit Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services,<\/a> said legal protections are often lacking for mobile home residents after natural disasters. He said mobile home parks have rarely been rebuilt after past California fires.<\/p>\n

\u201cRebuilding isn’t a choice for residents, but for the park ownership,\u201d Mojica said. \u201cIn the case of the Palisades Bowl, the park ownership clearly does not intend to rebuild, which means that the next best option we see is a sale to the residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Former residents have hung signs on the chain-link fence outside the Palisades Bowl mobile home park. <\/p>\n

Former residents say the Palisades Bowl owners should continue to honor their tenancies, which were subject to the city of L.A.\u2019s rent control laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re hoping that somebody with a lot of money comes along, and maybe they don’t do their due diligence,\u201d said Lisa Ross, who lived at the Palisades Bowl for 33 years. <\/p>\n

Since the fire, her family has been renting a Marina Del Rey apartment, but insurance money for rent has run out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know what they possibly think,\u201d Ross said of the owners. \u201cI do know that we have people behind us in government officials who are adamant.\u201d<\/p>\n

State lawmakers worry about displaced seniors<\/p>\n

State Sen. Ben Allen has introduced Senate Bill 1092<\/a>, which would require mobile home park owners to give residents the chance to put in competitive bids to buy properties with the help of nonprofits or local governments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis park has been home to hundreds of seniors and families over the years,\u201d Allen said in a statement to LAist. \u201cThe idea of deliberately and permanently displacing these residents, in such opportunistic fashion, puts a bad taste in all of our mouths.\u201d<\/p>\n

But even if Allen\u2019s bill is signed into law, it likely wouldn\u2019t take effect until 2027. Palisades Bowl residents worry a sale could be finalized before then. Allen said that if the sale goes through in the near future, residents should be legally entitled to relocation payments.<\/p>\n

Councilmember Traci Park, who represents the neighborhood\u2019s on the L.A. City Council member, told LAist she supports preserving the property\u2019s use as a mobile home park. L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, who represents the Palisades, said elected leaders are working to get the residents back to their former homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter surviving one of the most devastating wildfires in our nation\u2019s history, residents of Palisades Bowl should not be facing new uncertainty about their homes,\u201d Horvath said.<\/p>\n

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Giorgi Antinori and her husband stand at the edge of Will Rogers State Beach. <\/p>\n

Sellers say park is a \u2018generational offering\u2019<\/p>\n

The firms CBRE and Marcus & Millichap have been circulating the confidential sales document to institutional investors and developers. They\u2019re positioning the property for high-end development. Just across Pacific Coast Highway from Will Rogers State Beach, the property is described as \u201ca prime asset in a highly coveted, supply-constrained market.\u201d<\/p>\n

The document notes that the neighborhood\u2019s average annual household income is north of $350,000, and average home values are above $1.9 million. It states that the Pacific Palisades is \u201cone of Los Angeles\u2019 most exclusive residential enclaves,\u201d with \u201chigh barriers to entry,\u201d such as \u201cstrict zoning regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Residents worry the plans are designed to stop them from ever returning.<\/p>\n

Giorgi Antinori lived at the Palisades Bowl for five years with her husband. Their 3-year-old daughter was born in their home. Antinori, a Santa Monica native, said she and her husband spent years looking for affordable housing on L.A.\u2019s Westside before discovering the Palisades Bowl.<\/p>\n

Addressing potential buyers, Antinori said: \u201cI would want them to really understand the heart of this place, and appeal to them to rebuild this for what it actually is and what it was. It was beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before it was destroyed in last year\u2019s fires, the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates was a rare piece…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-206254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}