Then, former Missouri governor Matt Blunt ‘yelled into a bullhorn for excavators to start their engines’, KY3 reported. It’s a far cry from when the development was unveiled to the public back in 2006. Nature has started to reclaim the abandoned homes, which once featured turrets, enormous living areas and bedrooms

The abandoned resort buildings next to Table Rock Lake, east of Branson West, visible from Route 76, have become a source of curiosity for visitors to the region, which attracts up to 9 million tourists each year.Īnd now as the start of the warm season brings an influx of visitors, the unsightly mansions are continuing their slow decay. The original lead developer Jim Shirato was fined for violating state clean water laws and five people were convicted and sentenced for their roles in a real estate fraud scheme by lying to get loans to buy townhouses, local news outlet KY 3 reported. The project foundered as the 2008 financial crisis hit loans were defaulted on, and construction work came to a halt. CLICK HERE for story about legal issues in 2017.When it was launched to great fanfare in 2006, investors were promised the new $1.6 billion Indian Ridge Resort Community in the Ozarks region of Missouri would feature a shopping mall, a 390-room hotel and the country’s second-largest indoor water park – and dozens of enormous, castle-like townhouses.īut 15 years later, the 900-acre development near Table Rock Lake, Missouri, lies mostly empty, and abandoned McMansions litter the vast site in varying states of disrepair. The Missouri Attorney General’s Office later sued the developers for violating state and federal clean water laws because soil from the excavated areas washed into Table Rock Lake. The developers could not get the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to let the project proceed. Federal regulators shut down Columbian Bank and Trust in 2008, halting the development.

The banking crisis ended the project’s future. Former Governor Matt Blunt even attended the groundbreaking, expressing his excitement about the project. The $1.6 billion plan included shopping areas, a 390-room resort hotel with the country’s second-largest indoor water park, a golf course, a marina and an Indian history museum in addition to the townhomes or condominiums. To #greenscreen #house #ghosttown #housetour ♬ original sound - ✨LAWYER CARRIE✨ĭevelopers broke ground in 2006 on the 900-acre project on State Highway 76 near the Silver Dollar City exit along Table Rock Lake.

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