{"id":419665,"date":"2026-10-05T23:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419665\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:16:08","slug":"business-briefs-oct-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419665\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Briefs | Oct. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vantage completes park restoration<\/p>\n<p>Vantage Construction Services LLC recently announced the completion of the restoration of the Crescent Beach Family Park on Fort Myers Beach.<\/p>\n<p>It reported it marks another milestone in Southwest Florida and the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Ian. <\/p>\n<p>Restored to provide a welcoming recreational destination, the scope of work for the park included the construction of new walkway paths, relocation of a restroom trailer, installation of a new restroom trailer, bike racks and construction of three new shaded structures, which will have six picnic tables.<\/p>\n<p>Based out of Cape Coral, Vantage Construction Services LLC is a client-focused general contracting company serving Southwest Florida providing consulting, pre-construction, general contracting, construction management and design-build services for commercial construction.<\/p>\n<p>The Crescent Beach Family Park is at 1100 Estero Blvd., Fort Myers Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Cassell joins Stevens Construction<\/p>\n<p>Stevens Construction Inc. has named Brian Cassell as chief financial officer.<\/p>\n<p>As CFO, he is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the company\u2019s financial functions, including accounting, finance, treasury, financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, tax strategy, compliance, internal controls and risk management.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Brian-Cassell-200x300.jpg\"  alt=\"article image\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption\">Brian Cassell<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Cassell provides executive oversight of information technology functions, ensuring financial strategy, operational infrastructure, technology initiatives and workforce planning remain aligned with the company\u2019s business objectives.<\/p>\n<p>He brings three decades of experience leading finance, operations and strategic growth for global and regional manufacturing, construction and technology firms. Cassell has a proven track record of driving revenue growth, improving profitability, strengthening financial reporting and building high-performing teams, and he has expertise in capital management, governance, operational excellence and strategic planning.<\/p>\n<p>Cassell earned a master\u2019s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame\u2019s Mendoza College of Business and a bachelor\u2019s degree in accounting and business management from Asbury University. He also completed executive education in negotiation strategies and influence skills at the University of Michigan and holds a Six Sigma green belt certification.<\/p>\n<p>For the last three years, Cassell has served on the board of directors for the Children\u2019s Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n<p>International airport reports on traffic<\/p>\n<p>During the month of August, 609,026 passengers traveled through Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) in Fort Myers. It was a decrease of 6% compared to August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date, passenger traffic is down 0.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic leader in August was Delta with 147,022 passengers. Rounding out the top five airlines were American (111,666), Southwest (104,634), United (96,451) and Breeze (47,632).<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Florida International Airport had 5,612 aircraft operations, a decrease of 6.7% compared to August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Page Field had 15,721 operations, which was a 27% increase compared to August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Florida International Airport served more than 11.1 million passengers in 2025 and is one of the top 50 U.S. airports for passenger traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vantage completes park restoration Vantage Construction Services LLC recently announced the completion of the restoration of the Crescent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-419665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419665","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=419665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}