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Midtown: Fort Myers Delays Plan
The Fort Myers city manager does not hesitate to seek a new police station headquarters to pave the way for the remodeling of the grounds along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from Central Avenue to Fowler Street.
Director Marty Lawing said an organization of city officials was in favor of a new site for the headquarters that would open the door to the redevelopment of The News-Press’ former site into a “gateway to Midtown. “
He went to an open space housed in the city last week to solicit feedback from downtown area landowners proposed for a primary revitalization program.
“We look for feedback from owners, concepts about what they should do,” Lawing said.
The Fort Myers Housing Authority has raised the option that the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have been able to use the option that the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development should be able to use the option of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security withdraws the budget for a new complex to upgrade Southward Village’s former housing network if police headquarters is built outside of a network outlined in HUD’s grant application.
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Applications submitted through the city and the Housing Authority for the grant come with a map showing a planned police headquarters in a community stretching from Southward Village to Central Avenue.
Lawing said Thursday that the city believes a site for police headquarters can be discovered in the designated neighborhood.
“It doesn’t say it has to be on this News-Press site,” Lawing said in an walk-in consultation at City of Palms Park for landowners in the proposed Midtown progression area.
Some council members argue that the newspaper’s past assets as a component of downtown progression would mean a condiment for the area’s regression.
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There is no confirmation from HUD that any other site for police headquarters would jeopardize the grant.
“We don’t know if we can locate the best site,” Lawing said. “If the line they drew is only outdoors, would they replace it?We don’t know. “
Some interested parties visited the assembly at the baseball park in downtown Midtown to review the plans and ask questions.
Several parishioners of St. Francis Xavier Church led by the Rev. Anthony Hewitt were the visitors.
More than 470,000 square feet connected to the church belong to the Diocese of Venice in Florida through Bishop Frank Dewane as a “one-stop shop” that grants it full authority over the property.
“We have a parish that can take care of the influx of other people,” Hewitt said. “Our church houses more than 1,000 people for the service. “
The church serves Catholic Masses in English, Haitian and Polish every weekend.
Like any other landowner, church leaders need to know more about what will happen to their assets if Midtown is rebuilt.
Hewitt said he looked at maps suggesting the structure of buildings that may encroach on church and parochial school parking spaces. , be widened and its surface replaced by pavers.
“Heitman flooding, those cobblestones would seem immediately,” he said, maintaining a positive view of the allocation in light of housing desires in the area.
“It can be a very smart thing for the soul if they do it right, because you’re talking about 4,000 homes,” he said. safe and get to work? It fits everything. “
Another assembly open to interested members of the network will take place in the coming weeks; last week’s owners’ meeting.
Meanwhile, the city will expand the design rules for the Midtown allocation to create a unified community in land use.
The cornerstones of the allocation would possibly be two giant urbanizations whose previous use is exhausted.
Lawing said the City of Palms ballpark, which was once used for spring baseball training, and the former News-Press assets are “two important catalysts in the Midtown leadership we control. “
“It’s a smart position,” he said. We need personal homeowners to control this. “
This article was originally published in Fort Myers News-Press: Midtown Remodeling Plan Airs at Fort Myers Open House