Laura Layden | Naples Daily News
The city has chosen a contractor to design the new Naples Pier.
At last week’s meeting, City Council unanimously agreed to award a contract for design services to Turrell, Hall &Associates in the amount of $1,478,400.
Chad Merritt, the city’s director of parks and recreation, described it as a “big milestone.”
The iconic pier took a beating from Hurricane Ian in September, forcing a rebuild.
According to its winning proposal, Turrell, Hall & Associates has lined up a team of experts for the job who’ve worked on more than six pier projects over the past five years, including modifications to the Naples Pier.
The local marine and environmental consulting business will work with seven other firms, as subcontractors, to get the work done in six months.
One of the primary reasons it won the contract: Its promise to retain the pier’s essence.
Read more about the Naples pier reconstruction.
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Laura Layden | Naples Daily News
A lingering legal dispute isn’t holding up the rural village of Rivergrass.
The planned village is moving ahead in eastern Collier County.
While parts of a legal challenge brought by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida are still pending and headed for trial, construction is expected to start soon on the expansive master-planned community.
The community will be built on roughly 1,000 acres off Oil Well Road, east of Golden Gate Estates – on land once used for farming.
“We anticipate breaking ground on Rivergrass in 2023 and look forward to the first homes being available to residents by the end of 2024,” said Christian Spilker, president and CEO of Collier Enterprises and a partner in The Tarpon Blue Family of Cos.
Read more about Rivergrass new home construction in eastern Collier County.
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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.
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