A major development by Barron Collier Companies is in the works for eastern Collier County. The project, known as Brightshore Village, is a primarily residential development allowing 2,000 housing units and a maximum of 120,000 square feet of neighborhood-scale retail. The almost 700-acre property is just northwest of the intersection of Immokalee Road and Everglades Boulevard. The project is part of the Rural Land Stewardship Program established in Collier County in the early 2000s. The program protects environmentally valuable land through the creation of Stewardship Sending Areas, where development rights are taken from environmentally sensitive properties. In return, the owner gets the rights transferred to a Stewardship Receiving Area. This will be the sixth Stewardship Receiving Area development in Collier County, joining communities such as the developing Hyde Park Village and the established Ave Maria. To read more at Gulfshore Business, click here.