Trailer park ousted for Costco

AZ, 07/05 ( Newszap Arizona )- Northeast Phoenix resident Steven Mitchell, 15, feels he was robbed twice over - he lost his bike about the same time bulldozers took over the neighboring trailer park where his best friends used to live.

"I was really depressed when it happened two months ago," Steven said. "My friends were forced to move and without my bike, I had no way of visiting them."

Until two months ago, Steven's closest friends lived in a trailer park - Park Place Community on Cave Creek and Beardsley roads - across the street from the apartment he and his mom share. "Some residents have been in that community for 20 years or more," Steve's mom Silvia Nettleton said. "They were definitely not pleased about the move. And, for what?" Make room for big biz.

Park Place residents were given 180 days to vacate the land their mobile homes were on to make way for the construction of the Cave Creek commercial center where wholesaler Costco is set to open a 150,000-square-foot warehouse facility. Eight-year Park Place resident Keith Zahan was among those that had to leave. "We were given 180 days notice then basically just told to leave," Mr. Zahan said. "I didn't really like to move but we didn't have a choice."

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