Excerpt:

Construction vehicles sit silently as
grass sprouts up on the dirt mounds
and graded building pads at Marblehead
Coastal. A bridge spanning one of the
canyons is unfinished, while a fence blocks
the project’s Avenida Pico entry. Custom lots
with panoramic ocean views are home only
to rabbits, feeding a sense of abandonment
that shrouds the property. The buzz created
by plans for a movie theater, bustling retail
center and sports fields have been replaced by
the quiet Pacific breeze. It’s been more than a
month since work of any kind has taken place
on the piece of land that promised so much for
future residents—and all of San Clemente.