Other properties are more tidy, although clearly unfinished. The first one Warren enters is riddled with debris, and insulation spills out of the wall.

The insides of the houses vary in condition. The houses shown in the video all appear to be three stories tall, and many of them sport a haphazard stone facade. He didn't respond to a message asking if he had permission to do so from the property owner. Warren told the News-Leader via Facebook that he wanted to explore the property because he'd never seen interior photos of the houses. 'All of these million-dollar homes, never completed,' Warren says in the video. In the latest video - which has been viewed more than 480,000 times - Warren stays behind the camera as he walks around the Indian Ridge Resort property, entering several of the dozen houses that were constructed on the site, but never occupied. Warren, who goes by the username 'BackyardExploration' on YouTube, regularly posts videos of himself exploring abandoned properties, many of which are in Missouri and Illinois. The property in Stone County is still there, however, and a 13-minute video recently posted to YouTube shows Columbia resident Noel Warren exploring what he dubs a 'whole subdivision of abandoned McMansions.' (These criminal charges did not involve Shirato's company). Another two associates pleaded guilty to concealing a felony.

Snider and two associates admitted to conspiring to commit bank fraud and/or money laundering. Two companies involved with the project - Indian Ridge Resort Inc., represented by owner Jim Shirato, and North Shore Investments LLC, represented by owner Donald Snider, Jr. - pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Water Act. Plans called for hundreds of houses, condominiums, a hotel, water park, golf course, conference center and retail space - $1.6 billion worth of development. In front of a crowd of about 200, the men broke ground on what was supposed to become the Indian Ridge Resort. In January 2006, the governor of Missouri joined a developer from Springfield on a picturesque property near the town of Branson, just uphill from Table Rock Lake. Watch Video: Indian Ridge Resort never came to fruitionĬlarification: This story has been updated to clarify the relationship between developers Jim Shirato and Donald Snider, Jr.

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