This is a guest post by Jeff Curl, Director of Landscape Architecture, and active landscape architect in the Naples community.
It’s the question of the ages between acquaintances, friends, or spouses…
It’s tough to stay positive in a bad economic climate, and even tougher to find motivation to get out, find free entertainment, or even ‘reconnect’ (more on that later).
During hard times, you have a choice – commiserate or communicate. If you communicate in a positive way, you can avoid getting down on your own or other people’s bad situation. It may sound “hokey,” …

Several weeks ago, the Naples Daily News reported about an impact fee change that largely went unnoticed, but hopes to have a big impact (pun intended) on businesses in Collier County. The Collier County Commission’s vote froze impact fees for at least a two-year period for projects that undergo a “change-in-use.” This affects buildings that have been in place for at least a five year period.
Until the vote, if a new tenant wanted to change the use of a business space, for example – from general office to medical office, or …

One of the biggest solar arrays in the world is coming to Southwest Florida! Babcock Ranch, the development located east of Fort Myers (Florida), is promising to create a city that would generate over 75 megawatts of solar energy and essentially cover all of its power needs.
It would be the nation’s first solar-powered city, and the largest solar array in the world (the current largest is in Spain at 60 megawatts), although larger projects are in the planning stages. 17,000 acres of Charlotte and Lee County land would be turned …

Since President Obama’s announcement that he would be visiting Ft. Myers today, Jim Moore, Executive Director for the Lee County Economic Development Office has been receiving a number of email and phone messages. As he states, a “chorus” is forming: residents, business owners & local officials are scrambling with ways to have their message to the President heard.
Read what some of their suggestions were:
Southwest Florida Residents Offer Suggestions to Obama