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Owners Market Burned Palisades Mobile Home Park for Redevelopment, Spurning Residents’ Bids

FEMA withheld cleanup assistance over doubts the owners would restore affordable housing.

Overview

  • Confidential sales materials circulated by CBRE and Marcus & Millichap pitch the roughly 170-lot coastal parcel as a “blank canvas” for a transformative residential or mixed-use project.
  • Los Angeles officials say multifamily or mixed-use construction is not allowed under current rules, permitting only low-density single-family homes or a rebuilt mobile home park, and they back restoration over rezoning.
  • Displaced residents from the rent-controlled park formed a community group, submitted purchase offers and report no response from the owners, with some now considering legal action to force engagement.
  • The offering notes single-family zoning with minimum 40,000-square-foot lots, a constraint housing advocates say would drastically reduce the site’s former housing capacity.
  • State Sen. Ben Allen introduced SB 1092 to give residents a competitive chance to buy mobile home parks with nonprofit or public partners, though the measure would likely not take effect before any near-term sale.