McNaughton Picks Up on Deer Crossing Project after 11 years

At one point in time, Deer Crossing was a hangout for many teenagers and equating the ground was masses of clutter differing from shattered TV’s, to slick tires, empty cans, and even bullet casings.

From Ridge Road, many might have questioned the empty field of streets, and concrete barriers from a distance, which were all left boarded up over 11 years ago.
McNaughton’s Deer Crossing was a subdivision built around 2008 and was granted unfinished midway through 2008 . The subdivision was left with brand new streets, newly planted trees, fire hydrants, and even a decorated front entrance labeled “Deer Crossing.”

Ten years later, the subdivision was left with overgrown shrubs, piled garbage throughout the streets, and a guard house that had been completely vandalized.

The guard house was left with completely shattered windows, a missing door, and three giant sized holes made between the frame and the exterior brick siding, one even being on the roof.
Streets and sidewalks were covered by the continuous growth of nearby grass and trees making the subdivision difficult to navigate through.
In the past month, McNaughton has returned to the subdivision in efforts to restore and hopefully sell lots in the subdivision.

With lots now being leveled out and mowed, the subdivision now stands in preparation for lots to be sold no sooner than spring 2020.

“We’ve worked so hard on it for the last month and it still looks like a mess, but if you’ve seen it before then you know it’s looking better,” said Bob Swafford, Superintendent of McNaughton.

Each individual lot is marked with a wooden stake. Some lots even still have their original acquisition signs labeled with McNaughton’s former phone number.

Just recently, the front end of the neighborhood was mowed and the guard house was boarded up. Lots towards the front of the subdivision are flattened with dirt and hard-working members of McNaughton at work. The original gas lines can be seen throughout the entire subdivision now, as well as the original sidewalks that were once covered in mounds of shrubs.

“We’ve held it the whole time, McNaughton never went out of business. We just had to wait for the market to pick up; We’re going to trim all these trees and get the landscape back and start putting some grass seed blankets in the front of the lots; hopefully we get some sales soon,” said, Swafford.