Robyn George | Naples Daily News
For decades, it sat quietly, shrouded in mystery and virtually invisible to passersby.
Just steps off Old 41 Road in the heart of Bonita Springs, Shangri-La Springs might as well have been miles away, secluded behind its growing wall of green.
“I’ve been here most of my entire life and always knew it was there,” said Maikol Henriquez, executive director of Bonita Springs Historical Society. “It had gates up and I’d look over and wonder what it was. There was a certain aura around it. It was very mysterious, but not in a negative way.”
But slowly, things began to change. After being closed for two decades, the property was opened to the public in 2015, grand opening ceremony and ribbon cutting included.
Then, last October, the wall separating the property from the eyes of the world was removed.
“When I gave the OK to take it down, it was a much bigger deal than I thought,” general manager Lee Bellamy said laughing. “It wasn’t even a wall really. There was a chain link fence and a humongous hedge row had grown unattended for 25 to 30 years.”
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J. Kyle Foster | Naples Daily News
After months of conversations and arguments about an entryway befitting Naples and a five-star beach resort, the city’s Design Review Board has approved site and landscaping plans for the porte-cochere at the Naples Beach Club on Gulf Shore Boulevard.
The beach club, a Four Seasons resort, is under construction on the beach facing the Gulf of Mexico. Its 216-luxury rooms are replacing the 319-room Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club, which stood on the site since 1946.
City manager tasked with decision on entry covering
City Council put the fate of the “porte cochere” in the hands of City Manager Jay Boodheshwar in January after members failed to come to consensus on a design during that meeting – and that was after considering three proposals in three months from Beach Club architect Hart Howerton. Council members couldn’t decide on whether to allow the developer to build the driveway cover because the designs all required encroachment on setbacks, which are minimum distances required around a building set forth in the city’s Land Use Ordinance.
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Phil Fernandez | Naples Daily News
What’s rising, with a planned autumn opening, is The Perry Hotel Naples, a 160-room hotel along the Cocohatchee River that will feature the rooftop Tigress Restaurant & Bar.
The lodge is the second for The Perry, a boutique hotel brand that launched in 2017 in Key West, where developer FOD Capital is based.
What will the new Tigress Restaurant feature in Collier County, Florida?
The rooftop full-service 75-seat venue will serve Asian-fusion cuisine with dry-aged meats, chops and steaks. The property also includes a boardwalk that meanders from the pool deck to a riverfront pier with an eight-slip marina and a dock from which water sports, fishing trips, and dolphin and sunset cruises can depart, according to Mike Raymond, FOD’s CEO.
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The developers of a 160-room boutique hotel along the Cocohatchee River in North Naples say the building will open this autumn under the moniker The Perry, which launched in Key West in 2017.
The $80 million project is located at 12155 Tamiami Trail N., Naples. The hotel, according to a release, has seven stories. The hotel has spacious guest rooms, most with balconies, a ground-floor pool and adjacent activity lawn, a poolside tapas eatery, a lobby coffee bar, a fitness center, an open-air deck with a rooftop pool, a poolside bar specializing in craft cocktails, and the rooftop Tigress Restaurant, a full-service venue serving chef-driven Asian-fusion cuisine and panoramic views, according to a recent article by Mark Gordon of Business Observer.
“The Perry Hotel Naples’ opening will significantly change the landscape for destination hotels available to travelers visiting Southwest Florida,” says Mike Raymond, CEO of FOD Capital, the project’s developer, in the release.
The hotel’s mood and surroundings, according to the developers, are heavily influenced by the local native ecology, which includes a riverine estuary, a mangrove forest, and an upland forest of native pines, oaks, and palm trees.
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