{"id":6554,"date":"2025-10-16T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6554\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:36:08","slug":"cape-coral-rolls-out-225m-yacht-club-park-rebuild-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6554\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral Rolls Out $225M Yacht Club Park Rebuild Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

City officials presented a $225 million makeover plan for the Yacht Club Park on Oct. 15, 2025. The project includes a new marina, community amenities, and a resort-style pool by the Caloosahatchee River.<\/p>\n

Construction will be split into multiple phases. Boat access points, updated walls by the water, a building for harbor staff, and a parking structure will be first, with a meeting space for locals, places to eat, a pool, sand, and play areas following.<\/p>\n

The payment schedule runs 30 years at $14.2 million yearly. Officials want to mix funding sources. A 3% rise in power bill fees could add $9.5 million per year. Extra cash would flow from parking at $3 hourly, boat slip fees at $5 hourly, plus income from the returning Boathouse Tiki Bar and Grill.<\/p>\n

“At least we can get some of the more factual stuff out there in the public’s eye and have an open discussion,” said Councilmember Bill Steinke, according to Cape Coral Breeze<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This plan dwarfs the $12 million update from 2022. After Category 4 Hurricane Ian struck and wrecked the site, officials scrapped the old plan for this bigger vision.<\/p>\n

State and federal groups gave building permits. Wright Construction paired with Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc. to handle designs and other tasks on Driftwood Parkway.<\/p>\n

“We worked feverishly on that permit and hit a number of hurdles we didn’t expect,” Steinke said. “The hinge pin in all of it was certainly the seawall. You can’t do anything until the seawall gets done.”<\/p>\n

Since 1962, the Yacht Club has stood as the first public space in town. Its 1960s-style building, swim zone, fishing spot, and water views made it a local favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City officials presented a $225 million makeover plan for the Yacht Club Park on Oct. 15, 2025. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-6554","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\/6554","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=6554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}