Today’s story idea: Abandoned $1.6 billion Missouri resort community goes viral. But if you elevate your awareness about generating story ideas, one thing you will discover is how much time you spend doing - essentially - nothing.Įven if you spend just a bit of that time actively engaged in the story-generation process, you enliven your creativity. This is not to say you shouldn’t have some QVT: Quality Veg Time.
It’s the difference between being in your car and letting whatever is on the radio drift in and out of your brain barely processing it versus actively connected to the images and feelings the stimulus evokes. If a part of your consciousness is attuned at all times to an instinct to look, hear and listen to everything as a possible story idea, you keep your general level of creativity engaged.
Thinking up new story ideas keeps you on your creative toes.
#BRANSON ABANDONED MANSIONS SERIES#
Why a story idea each day for the month? Several reasons which I’ll work my through during this series of posts. This is the 12th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. The Ozarks are a sprawling, mountainous region which covers large parts of the states of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.A Story Idea Each Day for a Month - Day 5 'With 9 million visitors annually to the area, this property is uniquely situated to benefit from the broad local, regional, and national market that plays, works, and lives in Branson, Missouri,' the developers state in marketing material online. Still grand in scope, it is hoping investors won't be turned off by the development's rocky history. In 2018, they broke ground on the new development called The Ridge at Table Rock Lake. New developers bought the property three years later. In 2012, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company stepped in to purchase the development for just $3.1m. Attorney in Missouri's Western District said in a statement that the failure of Indian Ridge Resort and North Shore Investments to abate, control or slow the erosion from the construction site persisted through at least the end of August 2011. The developers were later convicted of violating state and federal clean water laws after excavated soil washed into Table Rock Lake, and Jim Shirato was forced to pay a $125,000 fine. It wasn't the only legal trouble the project fell into. A fifth person, James Clarkson, 45, of Arizona, last August received a 24-month prison sentence. Snider's wife Heather Gibbs, 54, and Drake's wife Vickie Hall, were each sentenced to three years probation for their roles in the scheme. 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.
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.
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