You've probably heard the Family Care Center in Idaho Falls is trying to build a therapeutic home for troubled youth called the Pearl House.

Well nearly three years after the home's ground breaking ceremony, the property is still empty and contributors are asking where their money is going.

So far the FCC has raised just over two million dollars, and a little less than the 2.5 million dollars they originally earmarked for the project.

Now the FCC says the project will actually cost about seven million dollars.

While it may look like nothing has been done, the non-profit has used the money they've raised and half a million of their own savings to install plumbing and electrical lines on the property.

"I guess what I would tell them is it's still the community's project. We're doing it for the community benefit were doing it because the cost of not doing it is higher and were proceeding with our best efforts," says Chairman Ron Carlson.

Their best efforts have left them here with a site that doesn't look much different than it did three years ago.

Looking back now, Carlson says, "I suppose there are a number of things we would have done differently."

Carlson says several factors are making the project take much longer than they anticipated, some of those are a faltering economy, the recent mortgage crisis, changes in Medicaid rules and also less community support than they had anticipated.

"Had that happened then we'd already have Pearl House built," says Carlson.

The Family Care Center recently decided to scale back on the Executive Director Thana Singarajah's responsibilities, and divvy them out to other administrators with the non-profit.

"To give him a break and give him more time to do what he loves to do which is council kids were sort of distributing some of those administrative responsibilities within the agency," says Carlson.

Now here's some good news.

The non-profit has gotten approval from Idaho Housing to sell of 30 year bonds they believe will raise about five million dollars and allow the to break ground as early as Spring.