{"id":397469,"date":"2026-09-12T01:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397469\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:16:18","slug":"calusa-nature-center-gets-750k-for-boardwalk-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397469\/","title":{"rendered":"Calusa Nature Center gets $750K for boardwalk | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fort Myers hearing draws public interest\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a318d512702a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The entrance to Fort Myers City Council chambers at City Hall in downtown Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Evan Williams<\/p>\n<p>Fort Myers City Council on Sept. 8 approved a $750,000 Florida Department of Environmental Protection grant to reconstruct the boardwalk at Calusa Nature Center &amp; Planetarium.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,776-foot, 1970s-era walkway allowed visitors to meander through the Nature Center preserve but remains closed after years of use and hurricane damage.<\/p>\n<p>In June, City Council approved a $98,000 professional services agreement with EnSite Inc. for the planning, permitting and administrative stage of the project.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit Calusa Nature Center sits on 105 acres off Ortiz Avenue. It contains the largest open green space in Fort Myers, according to city staff, along with a variety of environmental education programs and attractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The entrance to Fort Myers City Council chambers at City Hall in downtown Fort Myers. Evan Williams Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3335,325],"class_list":["post-397469","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","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397469","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=397469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}