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Bay Street Yard, a new experience coming to downtown Fort Myers, is set to open its doors on May 30 as the city’s newest destination for live entertainment, craft beers, artisan beverages and food trucks. Located at 2136 Bay St. in Fort Myers, Bay Street Yard is a casual, yet upscale, outdoor entertainment venue with…
Read MoreThe cinema-eatery Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is welcoming film lovers to the movies in a big way at the company’s first-ever Florida location now open at Mercato in Naples, featuring its first shot at mini golf with HappyLand Movie Miniature Golf located in the lobby of the new theater. Located in a 33,652-square-foot space at 9118…
Read MoreThe Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers has begun demolition of the existing Southward Village community to make way for new, updated affordable housing options for the greater Dunbar community. The Housing Authority gathered with community leaders, project partners and supporters on May 1 to kick off efforts to transform the 37-acre, 199-unit…
Read MoreThe Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) invites creative minds from across the globe – visionaries, innovators, creators and futurists – to propose design concepts for engaging, transformational art installations to be built along the banks of the Caloosahatchee River in downtown Fort Myers. The goal of Innovation Walk is to marry innovation with art,…
Read MoreThe Horizon Council Business Issues Committee will host a Business Continuity Planning Workshop to help Lee County business owners and managers plan and prepare to maintain business operations in a crisis. The May 10 session will offer tips for business leaders to assess risk, develop recovery strategies, organize teams, create a crisis communication plan and…
Read MoreThe Goodwill Mobile Community Resource Center was awarded $28,450 from The Community Trust Fund of The League Club. The Mobile CRC provides online services in areas where transportation is a barrier and enables Goodwill recruiters to do on-the-spot applications for employment at various community events. Some of the services offered by the Mobile CRC are online…
Read MoreThe Housing Alliance, a new non-profit organization formed to provide information, education and advocacy for accessing and developing attainable housing solutions in Collier County, has named Michael Puchalla as the executive director and CEO. Puchalla has more than 17 years of mortgage lending, financial counseling education and non-profit, affordable housing management experience. The Alliance formed…
Read MoreThe City of Bonita Springs has approved a renewable public-private partnership operating agreement with the Wonder Gardens for a period of 10 years. “The City is happy to have reached a comprehensive agreement for such a staple in downtown Bonita Springs. The Wonder Gardens is reminiscent of Old Florida, giving a connection to the past…
Read MoreWith National Small Business Week approaching and 20% of new businesses failing within the first year, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2024’s Best Small Cities to Start a Business. And Fort Myers ranked No. 3 on the list nationwide. Top 20 Small Cities to Start a Business Cedar City, UT St. George,…
Read MoreAngel investors from the Tamiami Family of Angel Funds invested an additional $200,000 in Kind Designs, its second investment in the Florida-based climate-tech company that manufactures environmentally friendly Living Seawalls to protect coastal communities from rising sea levels. With this most recent investment, Kind Designs has now raised a total of $400,000 from Southwest Florida…
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