High-rises In Downtown Fort Myers Rising Again After Decade Of Delays

CLOGAN@NEWS-PRESS.COM, The News-Press
Mon, 02/19/2018 - 5:10am

No high-rise has been built in or near downtown in a decade, since the housing bubble burst amid the Great Recession. That's about to change.

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