Tag: Fort Myers Beach (Fla)

After Hurricane Ian, Who Will Get to Call Fort Myers Beach Home?

Melissa Hill has gotten used to the transformed view outside the restaurant where she tends bar in Fort Myers Beach: the concrete slabs where bustling businesses once stood, the bald fishing pier pilings, the elevator shaft that is the only, eerie remnant of a two-story shop. What she cannot get used to is how her […]

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If Hurricane Rebuilding Is Only Affordable for the Wealthy, This Is the Florida You Get

Before the storm hit, Fort Myers Beach was a colorful, pleasantly ramshackle town along a fairly perfect seven-mile stretch of sand. Its single-story bungalow homes and condo buildings gave middle-class sun seekers entree into beachside living. Its low-slung motels welcomed travelers from both the Midwest and within Florida. Many returned year after year. A few […]

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