To find out, speak to the owner, neighbors or any local realtor.To the latter, I'd say this is the same gamble any local builder would take. 

Currently, 1 ton of gold goes for approximately $40,576,000 millionIf you have $40.57 million laying around that you are certain you won't have need for in 20 or 30 years, but that you cannot afford gambling with by investing in riskier or other comparatively illiquid assets, you would look to gold to solve that problem. 

Appreciation gamble?

Speculation is Gambling.

It becomes a crap shoot for the company, but they are gambling with the investors money.2.  

Look at it like gambling, people get caught up in the moment and only meant to spend x amount, the excitement causes them to spend more.

I don't like growth stocks (AMZN, TSLA, NFLX, FB, etc) because there is not difference between these and gambling.

It could be a pretty big gamble if they follow through.

There are many practices for which this argument calls to question the modern paradigm including; war, capital punishment and federal taxation losses (offshore and domestic) costing a floor of $40 billion per year.

I am "gambling" my money that it will be in precious metals and food.