Dan DeLuca | Naples Daily News
The seventh annual Minto US Open Pickleball Championships return to Naples this week with the largest field and largest purse in the event’s history.
More than 3,000 competitors of all ages and levels will descend on East Naples Community Park for the tournament, which begins Saturday and runs through Sunday, April 22. Players from all 50 states and 29 different counties will be in attendance, including the top 200 professionals who will compete for a US Open record purse of $125,000.
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Laura Layden | Naples Daily News
An out-of-town developer has proposed a lofty redevelopment project in downtown Naples.
It would span nearly two city blocks.
The application is still winding its way through the city’s review and approval process. Ultimately, it needs a thumbs up from City Council – and a final sign off from the city’s Design Review Board – to happen.
Here’s some of what we know:
The redevelopment proposal involves more than 4 acres of mostly vacant land, between the historic Tin City and the infamous Fifth Avenue shopping district.
The property sits east of Four Corners, where U.S. 41 turns east toward Miami…
Long-time Naples residents will recognize one of those addresses as the former home of the iconic St. George & The Dragon restaurant, the dimly lit, old-school steakhouse that operated at 936 Fifth Ave. S. for more than 40 years…
Read more to about whether this development will include a Restoration Hardware and Whole Foods market.
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Kendall Little | Naples Daily News
Naples-Marco Island, Cape Coral-Fort Myers, and Punta Gorda are three of the top 15 places where people buy a second home in the U.S., according to data from SmartAsset.
The Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island metro area (Collier County) ranked third in the most popular places to buy a second home.
SmartAsset says a little more than half of all mortgages in the area are for second homes.
Cape Coral-Fort Myers (Lee County) ranked 11th on the list with over 27,000 mortgages approved for second homes in 2021.
Punta Gorda came in at 13th on Smart Asset’s list with 40.1% of the city’s mortgages being for second homes.
Read more about Water, warmth and way of life…. in Southwest Florida.
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Wendy Fullerton | Naples Daily News
As construction on the long-awaited Margaritaville Resort on Fort Myers Beach really takes shape, there’s news that another Jimmy Buffett-themed hotel is coming to Southwest Florida.
The new hotel planned for Naples is going to be much more subdued than most of Margaritaville’s other properties, John Cohlan, the CEO of Margaritaville Holdings, told our reporter Phil Fernandez.
Read more about the new Margaritaville hotel in Naples, and other projects coming to the area.
Also read Naples is getting it’s own Margaritaville hotel.
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Diana Biederman | Naples Daily News
Yelp released its Top 100 restaurants in Florida list for 2023 based on the platform’s user reviews. Fort Myers and Naples claimed three spots on the list at numbers 57, 84 and 100.
Only one restaurant on the list is a repeat winner from 2022: Café Flore (No. 23), Petar’s (No. 59) and Rumba Cuban Cafe (last year’s overall fifth place winner) are absent this year.
And the winners are
- Uncle Rico’s Pizza (No. 57): Although this popular pizza joint didn’t earn bracket love from News-Press readers, Yelpers love it…
- Organically Twisted (No. 84): Starting as a food truck in 2013, John Hart’s Organically Twisted emerged as Naples must-visit vegetarian-vegan-gluten-free temple…
- Dixie Fish Co. (No. 100): After Hurricane Ian slammed the restaurant, it re-opened Feb. 23, earning the last coveted slot on Yelp’s list…
Yelp – “Reviews or keyboard gangsters?” – read the full article
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