Development

The historic Colson Hotel in Sarasota was once a welcoming place for Black travelers during Jim Crow. Now, the building is facing demolition.

When the wildlife corridor was envisioned, subdivisions with 10,000 houses and hundreds of thousands of feet of office space were not planned.

The North Alva and Olga area is the last bastion of rural, agricultural land in Lee County. It's being eyed by developers.

During Hurricane Ian a North Fort Myers riverfront dwelling that was home to adults with developmental disabilities for more than 25 years was destroyed and five adults were displaced and forced into temporary rental housing.

A group of homeowners north of Rotary Park marched in the rain earlier this week to protest the pre-development efforts of a group seeking a way to make 380 untouched acres in South Cape Coral attractive to a future developer

The Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency Wednesday approved up to $22.4 million dollars in increment tax rebates for two new developments. One is located downtown, the other in the Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard redevelopment area.

Estero Village Council members on Wednesday unanimously approved the rezoning request for Woodfield Estero.

Homeowners in Briny Breezes, a small ocean-front mobile home community in Palm Beach County that sits on the Intracoastal Waterway, are said to be looking for a deal closer to $1 billion.

At a recent gathering of business owners and entrepreneurs, the guest speakers were family members of Ray Lutgert. Lutgert began his commercial real estate development business nearly 50 years ago, starting with the Park Shore planned unit community in Naples. When Lutgert died in 2010 at the age of 90, his legacy has been continued by his children and grandchildren.

A new housing development in Bonita Springs has brought up questions from neighbors.