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The participating vendors, which numbered about five dozen at last count, and members of the Hatchery, small business owners who use Babcock Ranch office space for their enterprises, will be on hand. 

Twice over the past five years, Lee County commissioners have chosen not to use a search firm, going against the trend for elected officials.

Burntwood Tavern temporarily closed over the weekend at Mercato in North Naples with plans to reopen in early or mid-October as a mostly new dining concept.

When an Aug. 11 Fast Company story was published comparing the housing bubble burst after prices peaked in 2006 to today’s falling home prices in Punta Gorda, local Realtors and an analyst took notice.

Global Flight Training Solutions, which has been operating a flight school at Immokalee Regional Airport since 2019, broke ground last week on a second set of business jet storage hangars at the airport to meet growing demand. 

Southwest Florida International Airport’s terminal expansion project will cost at least $135 million more than its original $331 million budget and will be completed about three years behind schedule, according to an email sent to port authority executives from a resigning executive. 

The owners of Leroy’s Fish Shack expected it to open next month before running into a couple of unexpected delays. Instead, the restaurant will open in early 2025 in the space formerly occupied by the Village Fish Market, said co-owner Lee Richardson.

Aspen, Colorado-based M Development proposes to build two three-story, mixed-use buildings and a parking garage in the 900 block of Fifth Avenue South, which includes the former St. George & the Dragon restaurant site in Naples.   

Collier County commissioners opted not to host a joint workshop with the Naples Airport Authority to discuss a possible relocation to a site within the county.

The owner of the recently demolished Punta Gorda Waterfront Hotel and its attached building that used to house Hurricane Charley’s Sushi, Raw Bar & Grill, may build a new hotel on the site, his attorney said.