{"id":388593,"date":"2026-09-02T20:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388593\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:10:26","slug":"motley-market-set-to-open-in-former-bike-shop-space-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388593\/","title":{"rendered":"Motley Market set to open in former bike shop space | Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Fort Myers Cyclery sign remains outside the longtime bike shop at Cleveland and Hill avenues. The property\u2019s new owner, Dan O\u2019Berski, plans to redevelop the site as Motley Market.<\/p>\n

David Dorsey<\/p>\n

Dan O\u2019Berski kept driving past the northwest corner of Cleveland and Hill avenues in Fort Myers, wondering who would purchase the bike shop across the street from a strip club and hoping it would be something more family-oriented.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The more O\u2019Berski drove by it, the more he began thinking about buying it himself. He described it as an internal debate, a \u201cconversation with God,\u201d about wanting to buy the building but not knowing if he had the financials to do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Aug. 31, O\u2019Berski paid $1 million for the 4,200-square-foot building under his new corporate entity, Cleveland Hill LLC. He said the money came from his piece of another real estate deal. As managing partner and broker with Trinity Commercial Group, O\u2019Berski had a small ownership stake in the $65 million June sale of The Pointe at Founder\u2019s Square in North Naples, a shopping center TCG helped fill with tenants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unable to find a 1031 exchange \u2014 an investment in another commercial property that would defer paying federal income taxes on the Founder\u2019s Square profits \u2014 O\u2019Berski realized he already had funds in hand to purchase the legacy bike shop building.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Motley Market is the tentative new name that will adorn the Fort Myers building, O\u2019Berski said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Dan O\u2019Berski, managing partner and broker with Trinity Commercial Group, stands outside the former Fort Myers Cyclery. O\u2019Berski plans to turn the property into Motley Market, a farmers market, general store and community gathering place.<\/p>\n

David Dorsey<\/p>\n

For Prophet, a nonprofit organization O\u2019Berski created, will lease the building back, O\u2019Berski said, and convert it into a farmers market and general store. He wants it to also be a community hub, one where people will gather and have cross-cultural conversations \u2014 a place for a diverse community to connect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s located across U.S. 41 from Latimer Crossing, a mixed-income, 92-unit apartment complex. O\u2019Berski\u2019s TCG recently leased one of the three commercial units there to Foxtail Coffee, which just opened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The internal buildout of Motley Market should be completed by the end of this year. For the external modifications, O\u2019Berski said he is applying to the Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency for funding. He did not expect Motley Market to open before March 1, 2027, but it could have a food truck sooner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

O\u2019Berski said he has a 10-acre farm under contract and plans to use the farm, slated to close later this fall, to help source the farmers market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to his job as a real estate broker, O\u2019Berski also leads an in-home church community called L1A \u2014 which stands for \u201cLove One Another.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The former Fort Myers Cyclery building at 3630 Cleveland Ave. in Fort Myers was purchased for $1 million by Dan O\u2019Berski, who plans to transform it into Motley Market, a farmers market, general store and community hub.<\/p>\n

David Dorsey<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus didn\u2019t have that as a hurdle,\u201d O\u2019Berski said of having the financials to hold important conversations. \u201cWe feel the business community can also be a place where we can have these conversations. We\u2019re not letting that go away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the previous three decades, the building had been home to a bike shop, most recently known as Fort Myers Cyclery and Fort Myers Schwinn prior to that. For the first 28 of those years, Michael and Diane Holm operated it before selling it in September 2023 for $815,000 to 3630 Cleveland Ave. LLC, owned by Edward Wian and operated by his son, Michael Wian.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Wians\u2019 bike business is moving to Centerplace at Esplanade, in Unit 310, a shopping center off Alico Road at 11850 Cheeca Court, east of Interstate 75.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The tradition of selling bikes from the Cleveland Avenue address would continue, O\u2019Berski said, in the form of refurbished, discounted electric bicycles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

O\u2019Berski grew up near Detroit, but he often visited Bonita Springs, where his grandfather was a real estate broker. There\u2019s a home video of O\u2019Berski as a child saying he would grow up to become a \u201crealster.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Aug. 31, doing a final walk-through of the building before wiring the money, O\u2019Berski had much of his family with him: three of his six children, his parents and several friends, including Les Hudson, who led the group in prayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were praying through how this store would activate within the community,\u201d said O\u2019Berski, who adopted two of his children and lives in nearby Jefferson Park. \u201cHey, this is going to be a store that\u2019s going to have a very eclectic experience. We want it for families that totally don\u2019t look like ours. How do we pick a name that fits in with that? We started kicking around names.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Dan O\u2019Berski, center in teal shirt, gathers with family and friends inside the former Fort Myers Cyclery building. O\u2019Berski plans to transform the property into Motley Market, with an opening targeted for 2027.<\/p>\n

David Dorsey<\/p>\n

\u201cMotley is defined as \u2018incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate.\u2019 Most people would look at what we\u2019re trying to accomplish as that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

O\u2019Berski and his wife, Kristin, moved from Michigan to Lee County more than 20 years ago. For nine years, they lived in a gated community in Estero. During that span, O\u2019Berski said he felt his spiritual life stagnating. So, they moved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt challenged with our definition of what being a Jesus follower meant,\u201d O\u2019Berski said. \u201cWe looked at ourselves and realized we asked him to follow us and bless what visions we had. We had been challenged that if we claimed to be people who followed Jesus, we might need to find where Jesus would be and follow him instead.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The location of Motley Market ties into that, O\u2019Berski said \u2014 across the street from Allure Gentlemen\u2019s Club, the strip club.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, where did Jesus hang out?\u201d O\u2019Berski said. \u201cMost of the time, he was hanging out with people who didn\u2019t have significant resources. And a place like a strip club fits. We\u2019re not afraid of where anybody comes from.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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