I recently got the chance to (re)visit an interesting spot. It was at one time, a shipyard to build liberty ships during the second world war. In the Early two-thousands it became a preposed waterfront development, hoping to one day compete with the infamous Sea Island. The development made it just far enough to build two show houses (well a show house, and an office space), put in the basic infrastructure, a few roads, then go bankrupt. The owner of the original company fled the country with whatever was left, and screwed many people over. Regardless, this is the meaningless history. It still is sitting empty, and has many traces left of the once J.A. Jones shipyard.
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rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
From a distance, the home looks to be in pretty decent shape, possibly even in habited.
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rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
Then you get up close and personal and realize.
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rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
It's not even complete....
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rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
The same goes for the abandon office building, it looks decent but look close. look at that railing around the porch and how the stairs are literally blocked off.
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rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
at least they had good intentions... maybe. Word was they were going to take out parts of the original cradles to put in a pier and marina....
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rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
A cradle, looking back towards the sydney lanier Bridge. (yes original to the shipyard) that is directly infront of the rear of the large house.
Back during highschool, this was a place I spent a LOT of time before the new owners bought it. It use to be "wide open" meaning no one really cared who came in and who went out. We use to come do all kinds of stuff, and both houses were entirely unlocked. I've been in both. I'd been all over. About two years back, a new group bought the property but has done nothing with it, other then lock it down, and keep people out. This was just a recon mission to test a back way in. My next post will include all the actual historic buildings on the property, the cradles, the old dock, and the old warehouses. I just didn't have time to make it that far, I just wanted to test my POE. the buildings are back towards the direction I'm facing in the below photo.
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rollinginthehiggs, on Flickr
The largest building pictured is a factory, that's on the other side of a canal that sat desolate all my years of high school. A company just bought it with the intent of making gypsome (what it originally made through the gp company). However, I may have allegedly infiltrated it a few years back, and it will most likely become a thread of it's own sometime soon.
I plan on making a full on thread, once I finally get the chance to get some more photos. I also planning on giving all the history I know of it.