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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Friday, November 15,2002
Brannon Mobile Home Park still open... for the time being
By Phillip Hermann
Business Editor
The for-sale sign is posted, but
owner Hugh Brannon says his
Brannon Mobile Home Park on Hwy.
141 in south Forsyth County has not
been sold, and the 60 families who
make their homes there don’t have to
worry about finding new lots.
Not yet, anyway.
Brannon, 65, in an interview
Monday said he’s “getting old” and
wants, eventually, to sell his property
and retire. That’s why occasionally
over the past 10 or so years he has
placed a “For Sale” sign on the front
of the park’s 13-acre site.
“I guess you could say I’m on the
two- to five-year plan unless some
one comes here tomorrow and offers
me a lot of money for my property,”
Brannon said in an interview
Monday. He’s reluctant to talk a spe
cific dollar-per-acre amount but says
he would ask for more than sur
rounding land has been sold for in
the last five years.
“Right now, there is no public
sewer available, and I know I can get
more for the property if that’s the
case. There’s no telling how many
years it will be until the county sewer
plant [ground is broken at the Old
Fowler Property] is ready,” Brannon
said. “I’m getting old, and there is
always a lot of work to do around
here. You have to fix water lines and
electrical lines pump out septic
tanks. Right now, I’ve got a guy over
here cutting down some trees for me
that were hit by lightning. It’s lots of
work and I’m not getting any
younger.”
Brannon has lived most of his 65
years in Forsyth County. When he
does sells his property, he plans to
stay in the area.
He opened the park in 1967 on
his family’s land that is still the site
of his own single-family home. His
brothers, Roger and Jerry, don’t live
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eventually, to sell his property and retire.
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The five dozen families who make their homes at Brannon Mobile Home Park don’t have to worry about finding new lots for a while.
in Forsyth County but own about 48
acres across the street from the
mobile home park.
All the Brannons’ land would
have to go through the county’s
rezoning process to accommodate
either a commercial, manufacturing
or single-family housing use.
Brannon said that, over the years,
the potential sale of the park has
been widely speculated on by resi
dents and others.
“If I had my choice of what to do
with the land, I’d like to be able to
sell it to someone who would keep it
as a mobile home park and run it like
I have. I don’t know if that’s possible
when you consider they’re always
trying to phase out mobile homes
and where you can put them,” he
said.
The increasing traffic on Hwy.
141 is amazing to him, he added.
“I can remember when you would
only see three or four cars a day on
that road sometimes you could sit
for hours and not see even a single
car. Now, there are times when cars
are backed up and people just sit for
a long time.”
The recent sale of another mobile
home park further south may have
heightened concern about the possi
ble sale of Brannon’s park.
Whatever the case, Brannon
insists he’s not going to sell until
someone is willing to offer him his
price —a very steep price.
“I’m looking at about 70 years
old as my limit for continuing to do
this. We’ll see what happens then,”
he concluded.
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