Gulfview Trailer Park was one of the lesser known trailer parks of Galveston, Texas. This news article will explain what Gulfview Trailer Park was. Gulfview Trailer Park was also known as Gulfview Mobile Home Park.
Gulfview Trailer Park was established by GULFVIEW PARK LLP around 1954. Exactly or specifically when or what date is currently unknown. What is known is that Gulfview Trailer Park was located on Seawall Boulevard between 57th Street and 59th Street. All 38 large lots were 26 feet wide and up to 70 feet long to accommodate any size trailer made. Water and sewer connections were in every space. Galveston Daily News called Gulfview Trailer Park “GALVESTON'S NEWEST AND MOST MODERN TRAILER PARK”. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/30112643/)
There were plenty of folks from Galveston who lived in Gulfview Trailer Park throughout the late 20th century. There were many RV hookups available. A day at West Beach in the neighborhood of Gulfview Trailer Park was time well spent. (Ref: http://www.hikercentral.com/campgrounds/111324.html)
GULFVIEW PARK LP from Houston managed and owned Gulfview Trailer Park for a short 2 years from 1997 to 1999. GVP MANAGEMENT LLC had a hand in managing Gulfview Trailer Park. (Ref: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_tx/0010423210)
Residents fought the property owners (GULFVIEW PARK LP) when they learned the trailer park property was going to be sold to a grocery store. Many of the residents could not afford to move. Guifview Trailer Park residents were prepared to go to court to keep a Houston company from kicking them out. However they all ended up being evicted anyway. The residents feel they were left in the lurch when they were given letters saying they had to leave the park by March 31, 1999. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/13532621/)
Residents of a Galveston trailer park said Friday they plan to fight a plan by the property's owners to evict them. "We're going to fight it," said Johnny Morales, who's lived in the Gulfview trailer park on Seawall Boulevard for nine years. "We're definitely going to fight." Morales said he and other residents are prepared to go to court to keep a Houston company from kicking them out.
The residents also are prepared to stay at the trailer park as long as they can before being removed, he said. The residents feel they were left in the lurch when they were given letters saying they had to leave the park by March 31. Lorraine Gibson, a spokesman for Margolis Interests, the company that owns the park, did not return messages seeking comment.
Many of the residents in the park don't have enough money to move, they said. The other trailer parks don't have any vacancies, and many of the trailers can't be moved because the salt air has destroyed their frames, the residents said. "If this just upsetting that they can tell you to leave your home," said Phillip Daly, another resident. "I live here because I can't live anywhere else." Daly said his medical condition keeps him from working, and his wife, Rosalie, works as a waitress. Rosalie Daly said she and her husband have been looking for a new place to live, but apartments are too expensive. "A lot of people here are just making ends meet already," she said. "They can't just find another place to live."
Margolis Interests sent the letters Jan. 28 letting the residents they need to be out of the park at the end of March. The company wants to develop the land for commercial use, according to the letters. Anything the residents leave behind will become the property of the company, the letters said.
Many of the residents attached wooden decks and other structures to the trailers. Those structures cannot easily be moved. This is going to cause a lot of people a lot of misery," Morales said. They think we're trailer trash, and that’s how they're treating us." Morales said the company should provide some kind of assistance to the residents, many of whom are retired, sick or living on fixed incomes. If they’ve got to throw us out, just help us move," he said. "That's all we're asking."
“Gulfview trailer park residents are prepared to go to court to keep a Houston company from kicking them out. The residents feel they were left in the lurch when they were given letters saying they had to leave the park by March 31.”
GULFVIEW PARK LP shut down Gulfview Trailer Park in 1999 after selling the property to Meier Property and Margolis Interests. (Ref: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_tx/0010423210)
Mark David of Meier Property filed a Request for a Final Plat, in conjunction with the development of a grocery store on the date of May 30, 1999 as reported in by Galveston Daily News. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/20090420/)
99P-83 (5730 Seawall Boulevard) Request for a Final Plat, in conjunction with the development of a grocery store. Property is legally described as 7.148 acres out of the Trimble and Llndsey Survey, abst 121 Page 83 and 84, part of Lots 1 and 2 Section 1. Applicant: Cobourn Llnseisen and Ratcllff. Inc. Property Owner: Gulfview Park L.P. 99P-84 Capital Improvement Program 1999-2004, Published: 5/30/99
Today a Kroger store exists of the former grounds of Gulfview Trailer Park.
Gulfview Trailer Park was located at 5800 Seawall Boulevard, Galveston, Texas, US 77551 and 5702 Seawall Boulevard, Galveston, Texas, US 77551. Their phone number was 409-744-3382. (Ref: https://kstartz.tripod.com/mobilehomeshopper/id8.html)
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