Shop Talk

The northwest corner of U.S. 41 and College Parkway in Fort Myers may be located at one of the busier intersections in town, but it wasn't a happy place during the real estate bust.

As many 100,000 cars pass the intersection each day, but the retail corner remained unloved as tenants vacated it during the crash. Dan Creighton was one of those who would drive by, always wondering in the back of his mind why that corner was failing despite the high traffic.

“It's like a rock in your shoe,” says Creighton, a Cape Coral-based developer who paid $3.5 million for the 57,000-square-foot property in 2010.