Laura Layden | Naples Daily News
The Harbour Club looks much like it did after Hurricane Ian.
Ravaged by the deadly and destructive storm in 2022, the twin low-rise residential buildings are a sore reminder of the past.
Not for long.
After failed attempts to restore the co-op buildings by its collective owners, a local group of investors has acquired the bayfront property — at 1624 Gulf Shore Blvd. N. in Naples — with plans to redevelop it.
The plans: To build an “exclusive collection of premium condominiums” that look more like single-family homes, with prices that are more affordable to more people.
The property is within a roughly 1 mile stretch of road, dubbed the “Miracle Mile” after it showed so much resilience in the face of so much devastation from Ian. The area is seeing big changes, with a flurry of new development, as it recovers and evolves in the aftermath of the storm.
Last developed in the 1960s, the property, in Coquina Sands, overlooking Hurricane Harbor, sold for $17.5 million.
Read more about the Harbour Club redevelopment on naplesnews.com.
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Mark H. Bickel | Naples Daily News
The reviews are in and once again Inn at Pelican Bay in Naples has something to deservedly brag about.
The Inn at Pelican Bay announced in a press release it has once again been recognized by Tripadvisor with a 2025 Travelers’ Choice Award, placing it in the top 10% of hotels worldwide.
This honor is based on consistently stellar reviews from millions of travelers around the globe.
What to know: Inn at Pelican Bay and Tripadvisor
- This marks the fourth consecutive year the Inn at Pelican Bay has received top honors from Tripadvisor.
- In 2022, the hotel earned its first Travelers’ Choice Award.
- It received the honors again in 2023, and in 2024, it was elevated to the elite Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best list. That distinction named the Inn at Pelican Bay the No. 1 hotel in Naples, the No. 1 hotel in Florida, No. 25 in the United States, and among the top 1% of hotels worldwide.
What other accolades has the received? Read more on naplesnews.com.
USA TODAY Network
Newly released data from Realtor.com for March shows that potential buyers and sellers in Collier County saw lower home sale prices than the previous month’s median of $675,000.
The median home sold for $650,000, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. That means March, the most recent month for which figures are available, was down 3.7% from February.
Compared to March 2024, the median home sales price was down 1.5% compared to $660,000.
Realtor.com sources sales data from real estate deeds, resulting in a few months’ delay in the data. The statistics don’t include homes currently listed for sale and aren’t directly comparable to listings data.
For a breakdown on median sale prices go to naplesnews.com.
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Andrew West | Fort Myers News-Press
The south end of Fort Myers Beach is a nesting site for many of Southwest Florida’s protected shorebirds. Those include black skimmers, least terns, snowy plovers, Wilson’s plovers and more.
News-Press photographer Andrew West spent a recent evening there documenting some of the sights.
Some skimmers were seen loafing on the sands while others hunted the shallow waters in search of a meal. Least terns bathed and a lone reddish egret danced, pranced and ran in a zig zagging pattern drumming up a meal. In Big Carlos pass, several dolphins broke the surface of the calm waters, working in pairs in search of fish.
A staked off area alerts visitors to be aware of the nesting birds. The terns will make a racket and dive bomb any potential threat, which includes people. When hatched, snowy plovers and least terns are small cotton balls with feet. The camouflaged puff balls scatter along the landscape. The snowy plover chicks feed almost immediately after hatching, while parents bring in small bait fish for the least terns and black skimmers.
Beach nesting season is April 1 to Aug. 31.
Check out the video and photo gallery on naplesnews.com.
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Mark H. Bickel | Naples Daily News
Now that summer is upon us and the end of another busy tourist and snowbird season is in the rear view mirror, the memories of the months of horrible traffic we had to endure from Marco Island to Cape Coral usually start to fade right about now.
We come home from the grocery store or work and tend to say: “It’s really not that bad out there!”
But the clock to the start of next season is already ticking.
Which brings us to the Collier County MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization) Board Meeting that took place June 13. If nothing else, the meeting was a reminder that significant efforts are underway to create long-term fixes for the traffic stress Southwest Florida is experiencing.
But the meeting was important in many other ways in terms of getting a better understanding and more details about the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) historic project that will widen I-75 − to as many as 10 lanes in some places − from the Golden Gate Parkway interchange in Collier County to the Corkscrew Road interchange in Lee County.
Get the details on naplesnews.com.
