- December 13, 2025
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Premier development site gets price discount
The asking price for the Royal Beach Club property on Fort Myers Beach has been slashed by nearly 20%. The Harlan Group Real Estate, which is listing the property, says the new asking price for the property is $28.35 million — down 18.99% from $35 million. Erin Harlan, the firm’s co-owner, says in an email that the price change aligns “with evolving market dynamics while expanding its reach to qualified developers and investors.” The property, described as the final premier development parcel on the north side of Fort Myers Beach, is at 800 Estero Blvd. and sits on 1.72 acres with 220 feet of gulf frontage. It is on the site of the former Royal Beach Club, which was destroyed during Hurricane Ian. The owners of the three-building property, which was a timeshare, had originally planned to rebuild but decided last year it was too expensive. In addition to the price cut, Harlan says the property will gain some national attention when it’s featured on a Nov. 22 episode of the television show American Dream TV.
Land company funds wildlife crossing on development site
Alico Inc, the Fort Myers agribusiness and land company, has entered into an agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation to help fund the design and construction of a wildlife underpass along State Road 82 in eastern Collier County. The company says in a statement that it committed about $5 million to the project, which will connect to a planned wildlife corridor within its proposed Corkscrew Grove Village development. The underpass will be about 16 feet wide and 7 feet tall and support wildlife movement between Collier, Lee, and Hendry counties. It will feature fencing to reduce roadway wildlife deaths and will work with two nearby bridge underpasses FDOT is building at Under Canal and Panther Creek, both crossing Corkscrew Grove property. Construction is expected to begin by the end of the year. Alico will help finance the project through the Corkscrew Grove Stewardship District, which was created to manage infrastructure and conservation efforts within the master-planned community. Alico, which announced at the beginning of the year it was exiting the citrus industry after more than 100 years, is developing Corkscrew Grove Village, a 4,660-acre community planned on the site of a former grove.
Local company buys office building
Eisenhower Property Group, a Tampa real estate company, has purchased Westshore Square, a five-story, 60,000-square-foot office building at 4600 W. Cypress St., in an all-cash transaction. The property, sitting on 2.6 acres in the heart of Tampa’s Westshore Business District, was sold by Highwood Properties. The company paid $225,000 for it in 1995, according to county property records. The sale price was not released and Hillsborough County property records have not been updated. Westshore Square sits adjacent to the proposed 8.75-acre Westshore Regional Multimodal Center, a planned transportation hub serving the Tampa Bay region. It was built in 1977 and currently 50% occupied. EPG says the firm plans for a “world-class mixed-use development” for the site but has no immediate redevelopment timeline. EPG represented itself in the deal. The seller was represented by Paul Carr and Todd Tolbert of Colliers.
Site of future senior living center sold
A 4.3-acre site in Pasco County has sold for $1.7 million to a buyer planning to develop a senior living campus offering independent living and memory care. Eshenbaugh Land Co., which represented the seller, did not disclose the buyer. The previous owners are private investors who paid $175,000 in 2015, according to Pasco County property records. The property is at 10653 Marsha Drive in the county’s Trinity community. The site, the firm says, is fully entitled under MPUD zoning for a 127-bed assisted living facility and includes complete architectural and engineering plans, giving the buyer an expedited path to permitting and development. Eshenbaugh’s Chase Collier represented the seller.
Orlando Health plans east Manatee expansion
A health care system with a presence across central Florida, Orlando Health, is looking to expand south along the Gulf Coast. Officials with the organization, one of the largest nonprofit hospital systems in Florida, declined to provide details on the project. (The project goes back at least three years, as Orlando Health purchased nearly 32 acres off State Road 70 at Crossland Trail in Lakewood Ranch for $12 million in April 2022, Manatee County property records show.) While Orlando Health officials were mum on the plans, in an interview last week a developer building a medical office building nearby on Silver Falls Run says the organization is planning to build a hospital there. Also, a neighboring commercial real estate listing says "there is a pending 31-acre Orlando Health hospital" adjacent to the site.
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