FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. (WINK)\u2014The general contractor for the Sunset Beach Resort project has pulled out of the development.<\/p>\n
Benchmark General Contractors and the resort owners mutually agreed to split up. Terry Persaud, the developer behind the project, confirmed the separation but did not elaborate on the reason.<\/p>\n
Persaud said these situations happen in the construction industry. He said a new company, Prince and Company Construction, already took over.<\/p>\n
The change comes one month after developers and town officials held a press conference at Times Square, where construction is already underway. The resort is part of a wave of new development planned for the island, including a food truck park and a new mixed-use building with apartments and ice cream on Old San Carlos Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Gary Tasman, a local commercial real estate executive, said construction is starting to pick up post-Hurricane Ian.<\/p>\n
“Not only was it a clean slate for developers to work from, but it was a clean slate for the city of Fort Myers Beach to have the opportunity to rethink, reimagine, and reinforce the island to protect better for the next storm,” Tasman said.<\/p>\n
Lee County plans to celebrate a groundbreaking for the Fort Myers Beach Pier on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. (WINK)\u2014The general contractor for the Sunset Beach Resort project has pulled out of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,1695,1697,356],"class_list":["post-377199","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-florida","tag-fort-myers-beach","tag-fort-myers-beach-pier","tag-lee-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377199","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=377199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}