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Published June 30, 2021 at 5:07 PM MDT Alana Schreiber KUNC Andy Kadlec, program director for Thistle ROC, runs a meeting at Hickory Village Mobile Home Park, where residents are hoping to purchase their own community. Today on Colorado Edition: We learn why vaccination rates in rural communities are lagging behind more populated areas. Plus, we hear the latest on an effort by Colorado State University and the NASA SnowEx campaign to figure out how much water comes from mountain snowpack. We also get an inside scoop on how the sale of the Boulder chocolate company Lily’s fits in...
The owner of the north Fort Collins mobile home park, 400 Hickory St., agreed in March to sell the park to a corporation for about $23 million. Residents of the 205-unit park are working with nonprofit Thistle to secure financing for a counter-offer on the park. The goal of resident-owned communities (ROCs) is to give park residents more agency in their communities. ROCs form community cooperatives where each resident owns an equal share of the land under their homes, giving them more control over lot rent and park upkeep and preventing unwarranted evictions. The residents' offer will need...
Fort Collins' Hickory Village mobile home park is for sale. Its residents want to buy it. Jacy Marmaduke, Fort Collins Coloradoan © Jacy Marmaduke/The Coloradoan Hickory Village mobile home park Hickory Village mobile home park residents are racing against a tight timeline to become Fort Collins’ first resident-owned community. The park’s owner agreed on March 3 to sell the 205-unit park to an unidentified corporate park owner for $23 million, setting off a state-mandated 90-day timeline for residents to put in their own offer, if they wish. The north Fort Collins park,...
Residents buy Durango mobile home park from corporate owners Durango, Colorado Currently Wed 3% chance of precipitation 54% chance of precipitation 54% chance of precipitation 2% chance of precipitation River View homeowners take ‘control over housing destiny’ By Shannon Mullane Durango and Pine River Valley reporter Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:33 AM Residents at River View mobile home park in Durango are buying the park from Strive Communities to stabilize their rent. The effort was led by community members, from left, John Egan, Karen Pontiu...