Lonely places see new faces [Tampa Florida]
Sharon Cardwell’s family was one of the first to move into Brandon’s new Kings Gate neighborhood in fall 2007.
The subdivision was abuzz with construction, the sales center was busy and Cardwell eagerly awaited new neighbors.
But to her dismay, only a handful more houses went up before the builder packed up and left.
“We were stunned,” she said.
Cardwell lives in one of the Tampa Bay area’s dozens of ghost subdivisions – neighborhoods with roads, streetlights and seas of empty, weed-choked home sites. Some homeowners live on streets by themselves, and others are tucked away in a completed section of an unfinished development.