Hospitality chain buys Fort Myers mall property

By Louis Llovio
| 8:00 a.m. October 11, 2025
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A Hampton Inn is coming to Fort Myers' Gulf Coast Town Center.

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A Hampton Inn & Suites is coming to Fort Myers.

Vision Hospitality Group, a Chattanooga, Tennessee, hotel developer and manager, has bought a 2.51-acre parcel at the Gulf Coast Town Center. It paid $2.1 million for the property located between Connors Steak & Seafood and LA Fitness at 17100 Royal Queen Blvd. and 10066 Gulf Center Drive.

Project details weren’t immediately available but Vision has posted a rendering on its website that included the message “coming soon.”

Vision, according to its website, has a market cap approaching $1 billion. It currently manages over 4,800 rooms across 43 hotels in 9 states.

LQ Commercial, which represented the mall’s owners in the sale, says the property has been rezoned to all for hotel development.

Gulf Coast is a 1.2 million-square-foot open-air mall just off Interstate 75.

LQ’s Brett Low brokered the sale.

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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.