I once read about that development.
The houses were slated to be sold in the multi-million $$$$ range.
I remember seeing a pic of a few of the grinning developers and asking myself if even they could afford to live in one of those houses they planned on building.
apparently not....
Yeah, I would have loved to have owned that land. I believe that it was offered as settlement, but I think that the company I worked for was kind of in the hole as far as billable hours vs. cold hard cash was concerned, and they wanted the money, pronto. Beautiful property, I-90 used to run the shoreline at only 2 lanes there, until a bridge was built and freed it all up.
We spent many hours in the field and office there. Between a cheating dirt work contractor cutting corners and some SERIOUSLY messed up boundary to contend with, our company lost considerable money, I figure. Looking back, it was doomed from the start...