Long-stalled Murdock Village to get new life as Westport

Kolter Group aims to build hundreds of homes and Private Equity Group apartments, hotel rooms in Charlotte County.

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 6:00 a.m. January 17, 2020
COURTESY PHOTO — An aerial ohoto depicts the site where Kolter Group and Private Equity Group plan too transform the stalled Murdock Village into the mixed-use Westport development.
COURTESY PHOTO — An aerial ohoto depicts the site where Kolter Group and Private Equity Group plan too transform the stalled Murdock Village into the mixed-use Westport development.
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The planned Murdock Village in Charlotte County languished for nearly two decades as other communities in Southwest Florida – most namely Babcock Ranch, whose inception in Charlotte came around the same time – shook off the last decade’s devastating recession and flourished.

 

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