Many of the former mobile homes at Pan American Estates have been bulldozed. [Staff]

By Michael d’Oliveira | Editor

Fort Lauderdale – On the city limits of Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach at McNab Road and Andrews Avenue, what’s left of the Pan American Estates Mobile Home Park is a collection of bulldozed trailers where homes once stood.

The site was once home to over 200 residents until the company that owns the mobile home park, Pan American Corp., gave residents notice in December that they had to leave by April, according to multiple media outlets. Residents were offered money to leave early.

Messages left with Pan American were not returned but according to Fort Lauderdale’s Development Services Department, “This is the site of a former mobile home park that is part of a larger rezoning and land use plan amendment . . . If the rezoning is approved, potential development may include a number of low intensity commercial uses such as retail, restaurants, hotel, and services like salons, medical/dental offices, and fitness centers. Residential development will also be permitted and mixed-use development including residential and commercial is also an option. We have not received a site plan application to know what the owner’s future plans for the site are.”

What has happened at Pan American, is apparently part of a trend. The Highland Pines RV Resort at 875 NE 48 St. in Deerfield Beach has been sold to Carter+Co., a Dallas firm that paid $24 million for the 417 lots and two buildings on 25 acres.

Calls to the new owners went unanswered, but at least two mobile home parks in South Florida are being redeveloped. At a former mobile home park near North Miami, developers plan a 400-unit multifamily complex with 50,000 square feet of retail. In unincorporated Miami-Dade, a mixed-use development with 4,000 multifamily units, more than 350,000 square feet of retail/office space and 312 hotel rooms has been proposed for what was Soar Mobile Home Park.

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