Three Mile Mobile Home Park

Three Mile Mobile Home Park is a 20-lot mobile home community in Glenwood Springs. The same individual had owned and operated it for nearly 35 years. After he died, his children wanted to sell the park. The siblings said they had been approached by potential private investment groups but began looking into selling it to residents soon after their father had died. Ultimately, Bern Krueger, the eldest sibling, was introduced to Sydney Schalit, executive director of the social justice nonprofit Manaus. Manaus was the umbrella organization for a dormant affordable housing nonprofit called Roaring Fork Community Development Corporation.

Manaus previously had attempted to work with Thistle Community Housing and ROC USA on mobile  home park preservation, but none of those successfully became Resident-Owned  Communities; funding couldn’t be secured, and the resident’s offers were consistently outbid.

In August 2022, Schalit was at work seeking financing to purchase Three Mile Mobile Home Park and her bilingual team began educating residents about the process. She revived Roaring Fork
Community Development Corporation as the entity to purchase the park in order to separate it from Manaus.

Roaring Fork CDC was able to raise $300,000 from donations and secured a loan from the Impact Development Fund at 3.3% interest for 36 months.  Long-term, the goal is to sell the park to the
residents for the price paid and to offset some of the The local fire department said it would not cross the damaged bridge in case of emergency.

Roaring Fork CDC provided potable water and portable bathrooms for the residents and hired contractors to do the emergent repair work. Schalit estimates that longterm upgrades to the sewer and water systems as well as repair and bridge reconstruction together will cost as much as the purchase price of the park. Roaring Fork CDC intends to make needed improvement to the park before turning over to residents.