The phrase "abandoned to develop a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something or someone has been left behind in order to pursue development or improvement of a particular aspect or project.
Example: "The old factory was abandoned to develop a new residential area that would better serve the community."
Alternatives: "left behind to create a" or "forsaken to pursue a".
There's been plenty of speculation about the secretive Project Titan, most notably it was reported in 2016 that Apple had abandoned plans to develop a car.
The Board of Trade joined the venture in May after abandoning plans to develop a competing system.
It is also abandoning plans to develop a billion-dollar global technology system, he said.
The announcement by Scottish Power that it's abandoning plans to develop a vast wind turbine array off the Isle of Tiree is the third blow in recent weeks.
Two foreign-owned firms won international arbitration rulings: British-based Rurelec was awarded $41 million as compensation for the nationalization of its assets in 2010, and India-based Jindal Steel and Power was awarded $22.5 million for the seizure of its deposit after it had abandoned efforts to develop an iron-and-steel complex in eastern Bolivia in 2012.
In 1953, the farm was sold out of the Haley family to A. C. White who abandoned the farm to develop a gully called Mumford Cove.
Iran yesterday dismissed as "ludicrous" new economic incentives to get it to abandon any ambitions to develop a nuclear weapon.
The United States and Europe are reluctantly prepared to wait until after Iran's presidential election in June and the formation of a new government for a final answer to the new joint effort to get Tehran to abandon any ambition to develop a nuclear weapon, according to U.S. and European officials.
If, on the other hand, the claim is that in the complete absence of practical or theoretical reasons in favor, a subject is still permitted to adopt a certain belief, then the view seems to have abandoned aspirations to developing a principled position, and is no longer obviously an "ethics" of belief.
The French firm Total is abandoning a deal to develop an Iranian gas field, some Russian-owned companies are abandoning thoughts of working in Iran and plan to decrease purchases of Iranian oil, Indian refineries are ending purchases of Iranian oil, and European refineries are halting purchases as well.
