FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 The City of Fort Myers is moving forward with plans to turn Legacy Island Park into a new waterfront destination on the Caloosahatchee River.<\/p>\n
City Council voted on Oct. 20, to accept more than $330,000 in state funding from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n
City officials say the money will go toward building a five-slip boat dock on the southeast side of the island, the latest step in a long-term effort to make the small island a public recreation spot.<\/p>\n
Plans for Legacy Island Park include walking trails, beaches, and additional docks, creating a space where residents and visitors can enjoy the river up close.<\/p>\n
The project has been years in the making, and city leaders say it\u2019s part of their vision to make downtown Fort Myers a more accessible and vibrant waterfront community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 The City of Fort Myers is moving forward with plans to turn Legacy Island…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[11735,209,211,210,897,11736,11737,356,11738],"class_list":["post-13079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-caloosahatchee","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fort-myers","tag-fort-myers-city-council","tag-fort-myers-shores-florida","tag-lee-county","tag-legacy-island-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}