Fallow no more

More than a decade ago, the 18-acre Page Mobile Village mobile home park was envisioned as the ideal site for a Super Walmart or some other retail-intense development.

It was a safe bet. The mobile home park sat in a busy downtown Fort Myers traffic corridor, and the property was one of the last remaining large tracts of land along U.S. 41 in the area.

Cornerstone Page Village LLC, of Coral Gables, was so confident that it spent $8.2 million in October 2005 to acquire the 4944 S. Cleveland Ave. dirt. But when state transportation officials rejected plans to put a traffic light near the site for greater vehicular access, the Arkansas-based retail giant moved on.