{"id":46825,"date":"2025-11-14T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/46825\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:30:07","slug":"bonair-towers-demolished-as-plans-for-new-housing-begin-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/46825\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonair Towers Demolished as Plans for New Housing Begin | Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only rubble remains of Bonair Towers, once the tallest building in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>Chris-Tel Construction began demolishing the 11-story building, which is managed by the Fort Myers Housing Authority, in September and finished the work last week.<\/p>\n<p>The tower, overlooking the fifth hole of Fort Myers Country Club, was built in 1965 as segregated housing for whites only. It later became a refuge for senior citizens in need of affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>Residents living in the building\u2019s 101 units began relocating last year. Housing officials said residents will be given the opportunity to return once new housing is constructed on the site.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Bonair Towers demolition Fort Myers 2\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6917777fcc3fc.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Only debris remains at the Bonair Towers site in Fort Myers after Chris-Tel Construction completed the demolition of the former 101-unit affordable housing tower.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Michael E. Roeder<\/p>\n<p>The Housing Authority issued only a written statement, noting that specific redevelopment details are still being finalized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlans are in development for modern, updated affordable housing that will continue to serve residents and the broader community,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only rubble remains of Bonair Towers, once the tallest building in Fort Myers. Chris-Tel Construction began demolishing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1571,30540,209,211,210,5210,897,18224],"class_list":["post-46825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-affordable-housing","tag-bonair-towers","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-demolition","tag-fort-myers","tag-redevelopment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46825","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=46825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}