Challenges weigh on the construction sector, but innovation reigns

Builders in the region deliver cool projects, even as industry grapples with pandemic.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 9:08 a.m. November 1, 2020
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Fort Myers-based Stevens Construction began working on the Finemark Bank & Trust headquarters in Fort Myers in 2019.
Fort Myers-based Stevens Construction began working on the Finemark Bank & Trust headquarters in Fort Myers in 2019.
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There’s nothing cool about COVID-19.

But there’s plenty of cool to go around for construction projects in the region — including new Girl Scout cabins and turning shipping containers into a mini restaurant row — even as the pandemic lingers. The industry, with a show-must-go-on mentality, was aided in late March when Gov. Ron DeSantis included it on the list of essential business allowed to continue operations.

 

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