Seawalls don’t have to do all the heavy lifting. A new Southwest Florida flood blueprint puts mangroves, oyster reefs and dunes to work alongside traditional infrastructure, with the goal of slowing water before it reaches homes and businesses.
Fairways Inn has welcomed guests in North Naples for 60 years, but it won’t be getting bigger. Collier commissioners rejected a 30-room expans…
Dillon Rosenthal saw cracked pickleballs piling up in trash cans and figured there was a business hiding in the waste. Now the 22-year-old Flo…
Punta Gorda is trimming its property tax rate while spending more. City Council approved a $219.3 million budget that adds public safety posit…
A 169-acre East Naples citrus grove won’t become 423 homes — or conservation land. After nine months of debate, Collier commissioners approved…
Naples Airport’s newest hangar project is moving ahead. A 12-unit building cleared design review with plans for a new taxiway connector, drain…
A rare source of landscape shell could become Charlotte County’s next mine, but commissioners want more answers first. They delayed a proposed…
Punta Gorda is trimming its property tax rate while spending more. City Council approved a $219.3 million budget that adds public safety posit…
A 169-acre East Naples citrus grove won’t become 423 homes — or conservation land. After nin…
Naples Airport’s newest hangar project is moving ahead. A 12-unit building cleared design re…
A rare source of landscape shell could become Charlotte County’s next mine, but commissioner…
Another Broken Egg Cafe has opened a new location at Triangle Shoppes, near Restaurant Row and Collier Boulevard in Freedom Square, offering a…
The Shoppes at Vanderbilt is running out of obvious gaps to fill. Two new buildings are brin…
Harpoon Harry’s is gone, but its waterfront space is back in business. Castaways has opened …
Hurricane Ian wiped out Captiva Island Inn’s 10 cottages. Four years and about $6 million la…
For Florida homebuyers, Dec. 31 could carry an unusually high price. A proposed constitutional amendment would sharply expand the homestead ta…
Collier County’s pandemic-era property surge has shifted into reverse. Preliminary figures s…
The Salvation Army paid $1.49 million for the longtime Kiwanis thrift store property in Lehi…
Dan O’Berski bought the former Fort Myers Cyclery building for $1 million and plans to turn …
The second Ritz-Carlton Residences, Estero Bay tower has reached its full 22-story height, putting the $500 million development on its final c…
Nearly four years after Hurricane Ian devastated Gulf Beach Condominium on Sanibel, construc…
Lehigh Acres keeps adding residents, but the stores, restaurants and services they need have…
Whole Foods Market is set to anchor Vitano, a sprawling 82-acre mixed-use development planne…
They’re entrepreneurs, executives, attorneys, educators and community advocates — and they’r…
Florida has made progress filling teacher vacancies and raising starting salaries, but educa…
Award-winning Naples chef Kayla Pfeiffer draws on childhood memories for a favorite dinner-p…
EmCyte founder Patrick Pennie has spent nearly three decades developing platelet-based regen…
Dr. Larry Antonucci led Lee Health through COVID-19, Hurricane Ian and a historic conversion to a private nonprofit. As his Sept. 30 retiremen…
Tampa General Medical Group opened a 6,100-square-foot medical center at Babcock Ranch, expa…
HCA Florida Healthcare is investing about $300 million to build a new full-service hospital …
Lee Health is taking its regional expansion deeper into rural Southwest Florida. A $1.95 mil…
Collier County budgeted nearly $100,000 for a campaign explaining its “sixth penny” tourist tax proposal. So far, its public meetings have dra…
Collier County is doubling down on Europe just as international tourism shows signs of a reb…
International visitor numbers to Collier County increased in June, marking the first year-ov…
Collier County voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to raise the tourist development tax from 5…
