{"id":350494,"date":"2026-07-23T22:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350494\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:47:35","slug":"fort-myers-seeks-partners-to-restore-mccollum-hall-venues-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350494\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers seeks partners to restore McCollum Hall venues | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"McCollum Hall Fort Myers-credit-Evan-Williams88A3328.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"991\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/68af44c7cb9c0.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency is seeking operators for a restaurant and performing arts venue, along with a construction manager, as redevelopment of historic McCollum Hall moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Evan Williams<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency is seeking a restaurant operator, a music and performing arts venue operator and a construction manager to advance redevelopment of historic McCollum Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The CRA Board of Commissioners on July 22 authorized staff to issue nationwide solicitations for all three roles through the city&#8217;s OpenGov procurement system and other channels. Parker Mudgett Smith Architects is currently working with the CRA to restore McCollum Hall and design its restaurant, kitchen, arts hall and other spaces.<\/p>\n<p>For the restaurant, the CRA is seeking an experienced hospitality group, chef, restaurateur or similar operator that aligns with the community&#8217;s vision for McCollum Hall and can serve as the site&#8217;s anchor tenant.<\/p>\n<p>For the performing arts venue, the agency is looking for a cultural arts organization, performing arts manager, recording studio operator or similar entity to operate a flexible space that can host live theater, community gatherings, recording sessions and other programming.<\/p>\n<p>The CRA is also seeking a construction management firm with experience overseeing complex restoration projects involving historic structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency is seeking operators for a restaurant and performing arts venue, along with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,177,897,78137,83189,143414],"class_list":["post-350494","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-community-redevelopment","tag-fort-myers","tag-historic-restoration","tag-mccollum-hall","tag-restaurant-operator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350494","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=350494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}