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Lee County is looking at a swim center at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers where the Boston Red Sox baseball team currently trains — a project Cape Coral rejected only months ago.
Lee County Commissioner Tammy Hall, who is up for reelection this year, told a group of business executives recently that National Swimming Center Corp. was the only respondent to a request for proposals for an alternate use to the Sox spring-training facility. The baseball team will be moving to a new stadium the county has pledged to build near Interstate 75 and Daniels Parkway in Fort Myers and open for spring training in 2012.
Cape Coral, the city across the Caloosahatchee River from Fort Myers, rejected a subsidy for the swim center on 180 acres of city land in May. The Austin-based developer had planned to build an adjoining 300-room hotel and conference center.
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