{"id":240767,"date":"2026-04-21T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240767\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:26:08","slug":"fort-myers-awards-contract-for-second-phase-of-river-park-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240767\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers awards contract for second phase of river park | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Myers officials are moving forward with plans to complete construction on Legacy Island Park, located in the Caloosahatchee River just upstream of the Business U.S. 41 bridge.<\/p>\n<p>City Council at their regular meeting on April 20 agreed to award WB Williamson Bros. Inc a contract for $396,137.50 to construct the second phase of the project.<\/p>\n<p>The work includes a five-slip docking facility, an overwater observation pier, two gazebos and signage, according to a city staff report. Williamson Bros. was the lowest responsible bidder out of four that the city considered for the project.<\/p>\n<p>It is intended to offer boaters a unique public destination, funded by a grant from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n<p>An initial phase, including clearing the land, shoreline stabilization and planting mangroves, was completed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Work on Phase 2 is expected to be complete within 210 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Myers officials are moving forward with plans to complete construction on Legacy Island Park, located in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[38574,209,211,210,832,897,11738,28396],"class_list":{"0":"post-240767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-caloosahatchee-river","9":"tag-cape-coral","10":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","11":"tag-cape-coral-news","12":"tag-city-council","13":"tag-fort-myers","14":"tag-legacy-island-park","15":"tag-public-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240767","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=240767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}