Orange Beach pulls plug on 255-home subdivision with ties to corruption investigation | Breaking News from the Press-Register - al.com: "ORANGE BEACH, Ala. -- The City Council officially put to bed plans for a 255-lot Canal Road subdivision called the Homestead, voting unanimously Wednesday to revoke the special zoning needed to accommodate the plans.
Currently bank-owned, the 61-acre tract and its former owner, Deck Investments, had once been tied to the investigation that landed former Mayor Steve Russo and developers Jim Brown and Ken Wall in federal prison."