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Most likely just a confused address.
Somewhere in my city is another place that apparently sounds similar, and I've even had the electric company show up to turn off service at my house. And I've ordered food that rarely results in me getting a phone call swearing they're at my place, then finding out they're a half hour away.
I'm betting someone was trying to replace their own driveway, and contractors kept going to this place.
It might be some crazy scam, but it's more likely sheer ineptitude.
Some landlord with multiple properties just not paying attention and telling all the contractors that either no one would be there, or not to pay attention to the renters.
According to the WFTV article: