Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Briny Breezes, FL

Briny Breezes is a town in Palm Beach County that is literally a mobile home park - it and Ocean Breeze are the only two mobile home parks in Florida that are incorporated as towns.

The town consists of approximately 488 mobile homes along State Road A1A on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway, across from Boynton Beach.

In the 1920s the site was a strawberry farm owned by Michigan lumberman Ward Miller, who during the Great Depression began letting tourists from the North camp on his land in their trailers for as little as $3 a week.

In 1958 Miller offered to sell the land to the campers for $2,000 to $2,500 per lot; the residents pooled their money, bought the park, and incorporated as the Town of Briny Breezes on March 19, 1963.

Briny Breezes' first mayor, Hugh David, served until his death in 1997 and was never opposed in an election.

The town had 502 residents at the 2020 census, packed into roughly a tenth of a square mile - a population density of about 8,800 people per square mile; back in 2000 its 411 residents lived in 266 households.

In October 2005 a developer offered $500 million to buy the entire town - roughly $1 million per lot - and although a majority of residents voted to accept, the deal fell through in 2007.

Briny Breezes served as the setting for the 2005 film In Her Shoes, and many residents appeared as extras.

Most residents are "snowbirds" or retirees from the Northeast, Midwest, and Canada, and lot owners hold shares in the corporation that owns the community's land.