The phrase "abandoned development" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a project, initiative, or area of growth that has been left incomplete or neglected.
Example: "The city has many abandoned development sites that were once intended for new housing projects."
Alternatives: "neglected development" or "forsaken development".
"This is a ghost town," he said of one abandoned development at the time.
Merck and Pfizer then abandoned development of drugs that worked in the same way.
From Bluebeard (1977) onwards, Bausch abandoned development and progression: all her subsequent pieces are loose, unpredictable montages of scenes, strung together by free association.
"Streetlights were placed every twenty feet or so, but otherwise there was nothing at all, the whole thing like a recently abandoned development on the moon".
Anthony Haughey, 48, a Dublin art photographer, also roamed Ireland after twilight to capture the melancholy ruins of the nation's abandoned development projects.
While G.M. was fighting for its life — and trying to unload its foster child — it abandoned development work on future Saabs, said G.M. executives and engineers deeply involved in its projects.
The solution is not to abandon development or to stop providing, say, microcredit to women.
By abandoning development of fuel-efficient cars in favor of fuel cell-driven cars (front page, Jan . 9, the Bush-Cheney administration has postponed reductions in oil consumption for at least a decade.
Tucci, meanwhile, has cut back, abandoning development of video-storage technology despite expectations that the new business will boom in five to ten years.
After all, Yahoo has set that precedent after scooping up sites like Geocities and del.icio.us only to abandon development and let the sites rot in the Internet sun.
The company said it made the decision to abandon development on Windows so it could "better focus on enhancing your TweetDeck experience," but it's just as likely the Windows app simply didn't have the traction that made it worth the time and effort.
