The manager at Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park said they are continuing to focus on maintenance and upgrades to streets throughout the neighborhood, which has a total of about 250 mobile homes.

”We’ve been trying to get all the streets taken care of,” longtime Park Manager Roxanna Almaraz said in an interview with CU-CitizenAccess. “It’s a long process, but we’ve been doing it.”

Almaraz also said in November that ten driveways were scheduled to be completed for some of the homes in the coming months.

Shadow Wood is located between Market Street and the railroad tracks just south of Interstate 74, and is one of the three neighborhoods that make up the Bristol Park neighborhood. 

Almaraz began working in the office as a high school student under former owner Warren Huddleston. She returned in 2011, after the property was sold to current owner Marc Lofman. Almaraz previously lived in Shadow Wood with her family.

Inside the neighborhood, new mobile homes have also been added. One unit was fully renovated as recently as Nov. 19, 2025, as part of an effort to bring in newer housing stock. 

Most of the mobile homes are two or three bedroom units, with a monthly mortgage payment of around $1,200 to $1,500.

Almaraz said upkeep of individual homes remains a challenge. Residents own their homes but rent their lots, and management sends out periodic notices urging tenants to keep the interior and exterior of their homes clean. The city does not routinely inspect the mobile home park.

“Some of them just don’t listen,” Almaraz said of the residents. “I have seen the reviews and they blame me for it, but they are the ones who have to do it.”

The park management’s goal for next year is to keep fixing the concrete on the south side.

“My goal is to have all the residents power wash and clean their homes because as you can see,” she said, referencing dirt, stains and rust on some homes. “They get letters [to clean] every so often and some of them don’t listen.”

The park is privately owned, so anything of issue within the neighborhood is the owner’s responsibility.

Neighborhood Services Director Rob Kowalski said the city doesn’t typically get involved in mobile home park projects like repaving.

“Just because of how the nature of mobile home park works, the city is not gonna go on and resurface the street in there, because they are not really streets, just like we don’t resurface parking lots in apartment complexes,” Kowalski said.

He also said that it could be possible for there to be financial support from the city to make improvements, like streetlights, to Shadow Wood in partnership with the property owner, but it is not planned and could be expensive.

”Housing is so tight, there’s a shortage of housing, there is a severe shortage of affordable housing. You’ll find more and more people that, even if conditions deteriorate, they have no other options,” Kowalski said. “So it is always possible that the city could partner with a private developer and provide funding assistance for improvements, but we don’t have that in any plan right now.”

In efforts to improve the Bristol Park area, the city has also focused on Garwood with new initiatives.

The city will be implementing a residential exterior rehab program to help fund improvements to homes that help preserve them for the long term.

“We are going to be expending $100,000 a year in 2026 for a residential rehab program in Garwood,” Kowalski said. “It had always been the mantra of our neighborhood planning that we want to prevent Garwood from becoming the next Bristol.”

While there are currently no city plans specifically for Shadow Wood, the city is continuing other projects like the development of nearby Bristol Place, which is adding 60 affordable housing units for seniors. 

An initiative to get neighborhood groups organized has also been discussed, Kowalski said.