BRADENTON BEACH – The owners of the Pines Trailer Park have applied to the city to subdivide the mobile home park into two separate parcels.
“They did put in an application for a lot split which was rejected,” Building Official Rob Perry said during the March 19 city commission meeting. “They can’t do a lot split. There’s an old plat there. We have five mobiles on each lot in the old plat.”
It’s unclear from the Jan. 30 lot split application exactly what the owners’ future plans are for the 86-unit mobile home park. The application shows the park’s present zoning classification as M-1 (mobile home use). The future land use category is listed on the application as “ROR (retail/office/residential) and Commercial (split).
“It’s going to go from M-1 (mobile home zoning) to something, but I’m going to put a question mark on that,” Perry said. “The city’s going to determine what they want that zone to be. They (the park owners) want to develop the property, and it won’t be a mobile home park.”
The lot split application was submitted by land use attorney Marshall Robinson on behalf of Pines Park Investors LLC.
“They are going to go back to their planner and submit a proper PRD (Planned Residential Development) or PUD (Planned Urban Development). It would be a major development,” Perry said. “It’s coming. There’s going to be a zoning change request and not a lot split.”
“That was always going to be a rezone request when Kaleta’s group bought that property,” Commissioner Debbie Scaccianoce said. “They bought it with the intention of doing a rezone request within five years.”
Developer Shawn Kaleta was listed as the LLC/corporation manager when Pines Park Investors LLC was formed in May 2023. Kaleta was also listed as the limited liability corporation’s manager in the annual reports filed with the Florida Division of Corporations in 2024 and 2025. The amended annual report filed on Nov. 3, 2025, now lists longtime Kaleta associate Sam Negrin as the corporation’s manager. Attorney Louis Najmy remains listed as the corporation’s registered agent, as he has been since the corporation was formed.
Pines Park Investors LLC purchased the 2.78-acre mobile home park from the Jackson Partnership LLC on Aug. 25, 2023. The ownership group purchased the property subject to the stipulation that it would remain a mobile home park for five years from the date of purchase.
The uncertainty about the future of the Pines Trailer Park began in 2024, after Hurricane Helene caused water intrusion into the mobile homes. That December, then-Building Official Darin Cushing informed 83 of the mobile home owners that they could repair their hurricane-damaged homes if they obtained the proper permits.
In January 2025, however, Pines Park Investors LLC notified homeowners of their decision to close the park, citing “financial challenges, resident concerns and safety and long-term viability.”
Many of the mobile home owners withheld paying their lot rent due to what they said was the continued disrepair of the park following the hurricanes. Subsequently, many of those mobile home owners were either evicted or had to turn over to park ownership the titles of their mobile homes to avoid eviction. After those titles were turned over, those mobile homes were sealed, with screws driven into the doors to prevent entry.
The Pines Trailer Park homeowners’ association filed a lawsuit against the park ownership group and the lawsuit was later settled under confidential terms.
According to Perry, there are only five to seven residents remaining in the mobile home park.
After the March 19 meeting, Perry said, “We’re basically going to guide them (the park owners) in the right direction and let them get a private planner to submit a new plan, which is going to need a new plat and a PRD or a PUD.”
He said a replat and a major development application is needed and there are city-owned streets that run through the park.
Perry said he does not know what the Pines owners plan to specifically do with the property.
“I’m giving them the guidance to go through a zoning review with the planning and zoning board. There’s a process if they apply for a zoning change,” he said. “My job is to educate them and get them in the right direction.”
When contacted later in the week, Negrin did not respond to The Sun’s request for comment regarding the upcoming plans for the park.
