{"id":272821,"date":"2026-05-15T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272821\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:08:08","slug":"fort-myers-memorial-to-veterans-to-be-done-by-america-250-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272821\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers memorial to veterans to be done by America 250 celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h948651-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Construction has begun on the All Veterans Memorial in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948651-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">General contractor Suffolk says it has finalized the permits to build the memorial at Centennial Park in the city\u2019s downtown. It \u201cwill serve as a place of reflection, remembrance and community gathering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948651-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The monument, a spokesperson says, will be made primarily of granite \u2014 with a granite centerpiece and multiple granite pedestals around it. A circular memorial will be about 30 feet wide, with a central element and a 25-foot flagpole.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948651-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Benches will be about seven feet long.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948651-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">It is scheduled to be complete in time for the semiquincentennial \u2014 the national celebration of the country\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948651-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">Suffolk says in a statement that it is contributing its construction management services, design coordination and permitting services in kind and that trade partners have also donated their services.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction has begun on the All Veterans Memorial in Fort Myers. General contractor Suffolk says it has finalized&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-272821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272821","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=272821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}