The Landing at Crooked River: An Undeveloped Development in Kingsland, Georgia

Just past Walkabout Camp &
RV Park is a fence line with
missing slats & unmowed grass.

The Landing at Crooked

River entrance looks

overgrown.

I've got questions...  Who owns the property?   When was the development process started?   G & J Investment LLC. owned the property and approached the Kingsland Zoning Board to start the development process.  When was it zoned?  I found minutes from the City of Kingsland City Council meetings in 2006, 2007 dealing with applications for zoning the property.  In 2008, part of the stalled development was rezoned.  Apparently, the ownership of the property changed hands.  In 2012, Montgomery Bank & Trust requested a rezoning of part of The Landing at Crooked River property. 

There are paved streets

with curbing.

It looks like there's some

landscaping here too.

The Landing at Crooked River and other housing developments start-ups started having problems as early as 2006, as housing prices started to decline.  The University of Georgia Terry College of Business issued a report entitiled, Georgia Economic Outlook for 2007.  One section stated that the contraction in the housing industry fuels loss of confidence across the United States, ensuring declines in home sales and housing starts in areas where the housing market was remaining stable.

As the housing industry shrank and the brewing financial crisis threatened the US economy in 2008, the money available for loans tightened up.  Average Americans stopped spending and partially developed housing start-ups lost their pool of potential new homeowners.

A light pole stands in a fallow

field  with what looks like

electric utilities & a storm

drain.

The light green casing &
darker green box look like
telephone & electric sources
for a future home.






According to a listing at Loopnet.com, The Landing at Crooked River has electricity, water, telephone, cable, irrigation, gas/propane utilities installed.

Street signs & a stop sign stand

 at each street corner of the

 undeveloped development.

A fire hydrant sits beneath

another light pole.

I went to the Camden County Public Library, hoping to access local newspapers online to read articles on The Landing at Crooked River.  The library's password to access newspapers has expired, leaving me with one other option. I can go to Saint Marys Public Library and search through microfiche to follow local news stories on the failed housing development. 

I'm on walkabout and this is not a research assignment.  My pursuit of news stories on The Landing at Crooked River has come to an end.