 The project was featured in advertisements as late as 1974, but it was abandoned after residents threatened to disannex a portion of the town to thwart the development.The disannexation effort sharply divided the town, and led to a number of strongly contested elections between 1971 and 1976.In 1976, "Texas Monthly" awarded the project its "Bum Steer Award" after the project lost its federal loan guarantees.