CONWAY — Residents of the 6.5-acre Mt. Washington Valley Mobile Home Village off of Sawmill Lane in North Conway behind Eastern Mountain Sports have purchased it for $1.8 million.
Residents of the newly-formed Mt. Washington Valley Cooperative, Inc., a nonprofit cooperative of park residents, worked through the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH (resident owned communities) program to buy the park, making it New Hampshire’s 147th resident-owned manufactured-home community (ROC).
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