{"id":288330,"date":"2026-05-29T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288330\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:11:11","slug":"seed-bean-to-close-downtown-fort-myers-cafe-gb-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288330\/","title":{"rendered":"Seed &#038; Bean to close downtown Fort Myers cafe | GB Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caloosahatchee Cannabis Co. will close Seed &amp; Bean, its hemp cafe at 1520 Broadway in downtown Fort Myers, on May 31 as the company shifts focus to its expanded Cape Coral location and growing beverage business. Seed &amp; Bean opened as Florida\u2019s first cannabis cafe and became known for hemp-based wellness products, clean food and nonalcoholic alternatives. Company leaders cited rising food costs, operational challenges, the effects of the pandemic\u00a0and Hurricane Ian, and changing downtown foot traffic. Seed &amp; Bean locations in Cape Coral and Venice will remain open, while C3 expands its hemp beer and THC seltzer offerings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caloosahatchee Cannabis Co. will close Seed &amp; Bean, its hemp cafe at 1520 Broadway in downtown Fort Myers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3335],"class_list":["post-288330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-gb-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288330","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=288330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}