Q: I see they added the Aldi and AutoZone signs on the Randall Curve marquee. I see where Ace is going, what is the new building being built in front of it? Where are Aldi and AutoZone going? Thank you. — Luanne Skoglund, Golden Gate Estates
A: Vintage Naples Apartments, Aldi discount grocer, AutoZone and Brickyard Car Wash are the latest breaking ground in The Randall at Orangetree development on Immokalee Road’s Randall Curve between Randall and Orange Tree boulevards in Golden Gate Estates.
The Randall at Orangetree mixed-use development abuts Winchester Center directly to its north at the traffic signal intersection of Orange Tree Boulevard and Immokalee Road. So far, the separately owned and operated developments have built and opened only one business each: 7-Eleven in The Randall at Orangetree and McDonald’s in Winchester. Both franchises have been blessed with brisk business since opening last spring.
Winchester Center
The only vertical construction visible now on the Randall Curve is north of Orange Tree Boulevard in Winchester Center. The larger building taking shape will be Sunshine Ace Hardware; the smaller building under construction nearest Immokalee Road will be a three-unit outparcel anchored by a Heartland Dental office, which is taking two units. A tenant has not been named yet for the remaining 1,827-square-foot space adjacent to the dental office.
Vertical construction recently began on the inline retail strip that will adjoin the south side of Sunshine Ace Hardware. Five of its seven units have prospective tenants. Anytime Fitness is taking the 3,465-square-foot endcap unit. Other tenants signed on for roughly 1,500-square-foot units are Little Caesars pizzeria chain, Orangetree Hibachi & Sushi restaurant, Cold Stone Creamery ice cream and Luxury Nails, plans show.
Other spaces are still being negotiated, said Kalayah Sargeant of Metro Commercial Real Estate, the firm leasing units for Naples-based Barron Collier Companies, which owns and manages Winchester Center.
“We’ve had a lot of interested users. We are just working on finalizing them,” Sargeant said.
“It’s been going really, really well.”
Winchester Center will have three other freestanding buildings, two of which will be health care centers independently operated by Healthcare Network and NCH Healthcare System. Immediately south of McDonald’s will be Healthcare Network’s 20,000-square-foot Orangetree Community Health Center, which will offer pediatrics, adult and senior care, obstetrics and gynecology, dental care, lab and X-ray services, behavioral health counseling and a drive-thru pharmacy. NCH is building a two-story medical office complex behind McDonald’s, but details are not available yet.
On a 2.8-acre lot directly south of the future NCH building, a two-story commercial building is proposed for 40,000 square feet of self-storage units. The project is in for permits, said Rod Castan, a principal of Metro Commercial and president of Barron Collier Investment Partners.
“The demand has been really strong for the Winchester. We’re hoping to open it by the fall of this year, and we’re on schedule,” said Castan, who hopes to add a Cuban bakery to the retail mix.
The Randall at Orangetree
Winchester Trail, an interior road built parallel with Immokalee Road connects Winchester Center to The Randall at Orangetree, a much larger commercial development stretching south nearly to Fourth Street Northeast with two right-in/right-out access points off the Immokalee Road curve.
The majority of The Randall at Orangetree’s 50 acres are reserved for the 400-unit Vintage Naples Apartments, which will have four buildings of four stories each on Winchester Trail, site development plans show. In preparation for construction, a silt fence was erected last month along the perimeter of the future apartment complex along the western edge of Winchester Trail.
That 33-acre vacant commercial tract was acquired in early December for $18.5 million by Tennessee-based TDK Construction and Development, doing business as Vintage Naples Owner LLC, property records show. TDK builds and develops residential projects throughout the Southeast and Southwest, including other Vintage Florida properties in Amelia Island, Destin, Horizon West, Lake Mary and Winter Park.
Although the Vintage Naples apartment complex does not include the word “luxury” in its promotions or name, its “Dwell Well” slogan implies it, and TDK’s other Vintage properties are upscale. Additional details are not available yet for the one-, two- and three-bedroom units.
A silt fence also went up in December around the 2-acre lot for a freestanding 19,682-square-foot Aldi grocery store. Collier County’s fifth location of the discount grocery chain will be the middle of three lots between McDonald’s and 7-Eleven.
South of 7-Eleven, the next three lots are reserved for Chase Bank, AutoZone and Brickyard Car Wash. These three businesses will be built between the two access roads, Elaine Drive and Isabel Lane.
Chase Bank proposes a 3,333-square-foot office building with a drive-up window. Ajacent to the bank branch, completion is expected this spring on a 7,381-square-foot AutoZone store. Next to the auto parts store, a permit extension request was granted in December for Brickyard Car Wash, which will have a 4,453-square-foot automatic car wash and 20 vacuum stations, plans show.
Three other vacant lots are still available south of Isabel Lane. These lots are being marketed by Trinity Commercial Group, which is responsible for the leasing and selling of properties in The Randall at Orangetree for the developer, The Davis Group, a land acquisition, development and real estate investment firm based in Alpharetta, Georgia.
“We still have significant interest from coffee groups. We are seeing some interest from QSR [quick-service restaurants]. I know the community would like to see a sit-down restaurant,” said TCG partner Tony Mangione, who notes that he also has had interest from auto repair groups, self-storage groups and other businesses.
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