A new commercial business operation will be open later this year. The owners of the new food truck park on Estero Boulevard across from the old Town Hall property plan to break ground on their new facility Monday, June 8th at 9AM.
The Fort Myers Beach Town Council approved the project one year. The name of the operation is Access 26 which lines up with the beach access behind the business.
The plan is to have 5 food truck pads, outdoor seating including right on Estero Boulevard, bike racks, restrooms open to the public during operating business hours (including showers), a paid parking lot with 45 spaces open to the public during operating business hours, a 3000 square foot 2-floor main building that serves beer and wine on the first floor with offices and storage on the 2nd floor. Live music will be in the main open structure which has three sides and faces Estero Boulevard to try to deflect the sound from the neighbors as much as possible.
The approval comes with several conditions, the biggest involved the music. Myers agreed to limit amplified live music to 3 days per week, with only a solo or duo act, for up to four hours per day between the hours of Noon and 8PM. There is no restriction on ambient background music. On a 4th day Myers can have other types of entertainment such as bingo or karoke.
Check out THIS VIDEO of the new park.
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Complete garbage concept. The post Ian rebuild had been an embarrassment. But at least a bunch of people made money taking bribes and then some quitting over threats.
It’s going to be trashy and hurt residential property values.
Drawings always look clean, reality won’t be.
Slip A Way in the Cape isn’t trashy. It’s quite nice. Why do you think this can’t be built and operated similarly to that location?
I truly wish folks would stop comparing this FTP to Cape Coral or Naples Food Truck Parks, there is NO comparison!! This type of business was not even on this list of allowable businesses to operate in this area, they added it to the list of allowable business after the application was submitted! No vote, no input/consideration of nearby residents! I agree those other Food truck parks are nice but they have a LOT more space to accommodate this type of activity/business. This FTP is being crammed into a small, primarily residential area butted up to two residential properties. (See the two tall houses directly behind the building? Those are residential homes!) Traffic congestion will be atrocious on Chapel, nearby small residential side streets and Estero! Issues with traffic congestion have been obvious to everyone all along and were brought up at TC meetings all but to be completely IGNORED!! Congestion and illegal parking is rampant there now with just Mom’s! Sometimes you can’t even get through Chapel street because of all the traffic and illegally parked cars on the side of the road! But illegal parking is not just because of mom’s either, people illegally park all over the area to go to the beach, especially on the weekends! AND there is a PAID BEACH PARKING LOT right next to Mom’s, many folks refuse to use it because they don’t want to pay. We’ve had people attempt to park in our driveway to go to the beach or mom’s!! Sadly, there is little to no regular police enforcement in this area. So residents know they will be forced to deal with even more illegal parking, disrespectful trespassers, trash, birds/crows pooping everywhere and crowd noise! That’s why neighbors are against this project. It’s not the project itself, it’s the location of it!
I agree 100%
We live one block south and already have people parking illegally on our property! This FTP is only going to increase the trouble we have had to face, without much support from local LEC.
Why don’t you post a no parking sign and have them towed or call the sheriff?
This corner has been a commercial lot for decades, long before the condos and probably most of the homes were built.
Is this where moms truck is moving to?
Wonder if part of this project involves cleaning up and modifying the #26 beach access since they are naming this development after it and promoting the access!! Nothing has been done with it since Ian. it is a mess! No clear path, No signage, no trash cans, no poop disposal, Illegal parking, trespassing across private property!!