Thursday, December 10, 2009

Just one family inhabits ghost neighborhood

AMCORE’s Parkside at Prairie Ridge, Hampshire,  Il 

the first — and only — occupants of a complex of planned developments that is expected some day to hold 1,837 more families, spread over 1,277 acres.

A block away stand two model homes erected by U.S. Shelter in summer 2008, when that developer bought Parkside from Crown and began offering to build homes there. But only the one house was ever ordered, and U.S. Shelter finally surrendered the development to Amcore Bank. The model homes now sit locked up,

Just one family inhabits ghost neighborhood :: The Courier News :: Local News

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