$250M Naples resort takes step toward completion as reservations open

Work on the Great Wolf Lodge South Florida is shifting to the interior, giving officials a better idea of when the resort will open.

By Louis Llovio
| 5:30 p.m. August 2, 2023
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Vertical construction of the Great Wolf Lodge South Florida is complete.

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Great Wolf Lodge has reached a construction milestone at its new resort in Naples and has started accepting reservations for the first visitor to arrive October 2024.

Suffolk Construction placed the final exterior building block Wednesday, signaling that vertical construction is complete. With the topping-off now done, Wisconsin-based Great Wolf says in a statement that it has a better idea of the timetable for when it can fully open. It announced that it has started taking reservations beginning Oct. 1, 2024, with the hope that it can move up the day as construction continues.

Setting an opening day is not necessarily a science. The Sunseeker Resort Charlotte Harbor announced in 2022 that it would begin taking reservations for a planned opening in May of this year. But first Hurricane Ian and then a fire delayed construction and pushed the opening back to October.