Naples News



31 May 11

Reflection Lakes in Fort Myers, Florida is a development community composed of twin villas, condominiums and single-family homes. Located near Interstate 75, it offers residents a host of amenities and convenient access to dining, shopping and entertainment in the city.

The residences in Reflection Lakes are nestled among more than a dozen lakes, with some homes providing peaceful views of nature preserves that surround the development. Floor plans range from 1,800- to 3,200-square feet in this gated community.

The amenities are many. Residents can spend their time in the clubhouse that features a fitness center, billiards room, card room, catering kitchen, administrative room and outdoor heated community pool. All homes are near a public library, with shops and restaurants a short walk away.

Fort Myers is known for its beaches, fishing, golfing and shopping. The city sits along the shoreline of the Caloosahatchee River, and features an abundant amount of entertainment and dining options. Its historic downtown waterfront is being extensively renovated, as new restaurants, night clubs and artistic venues offer residents a fun-filled night out 7 days a week.

If golf is your game, Fort Meyers features more than 100 golf courses within driving distance. The road network nearby can take you right across the state, all the way to Miami and beyond.

Homes here tend to go fast because of its private, yet convenient, location, and some brand new, never lived in homes are priced to sell. Homes range in price from $99,000 to $659,700.







27 Oct 10

NAPLES — The Naples Bathtub and Tennis CLB is closing its doors.

CLB officials informed proprietors and customers in the course of a meeting with the club previously these days, stated Robin Frederick, president of the Naples Tub and Tennis Golf club Commons, the community’s home owners association.

The tennis clb has 1 hard tennis court additionally to the 37 clay courts. But it is not just about tennis on the 20-acre golf iron. According towards the club’s web page members also have access to a fitness center, a casual dining restaurant and spa services.

The golf iron also has a 33,000-square-foot membership home and also a pro shop.

Frederick said home owners were notified previously this yr “there was some financial instability” on the clb. Proprietors ended up working behind the scenes, Frederick mentioned, “to do what they could do to maintain the membership.”

That didn’t work, and Frederick explained neighborhood users had been told this morning that the golf club could well be closing.

“It’s a really sad factor,” she stated. “The golf iron will be the central life for quite a few from the individuals who have lived here. It really is their social circle, and it will be greatly missed.”

David Siede, a golf club and local community member, explained that whilst rumors of problems have spread through the community in recent months, the announcement nonetheless caught him off guard.

“It was a small surprising,” he says. “I thought maybe they would have had someone thinking about purchasing it. It was shocking to see it closed like that.”

Frederick explained she was informed the tennis courts will be closed Friday, but Siede stated he believed the courts could be open for another 30 days.

A spokesperson for the Naples Tub and Tennis Golf club was not immediately obtainable for comment.

The group was developed within the 1970s, and is house to each the golf club along with a residential neighborhood. Residents, both Frederick and Siede said, do not need to belong to your golf club, as is the case in a lot of communities that have an athletic golf club to the premises.

Siede mentioned the truth that local community customers did not will need to belong on the clb was a flaw inside the system.

“That’s the weakness of the situation: The key point is once they built this golf club, what they had to have from the by-laws was (property homeowners) have to have at the very least a social membership,” Siede stated.

“If we had that, we’d have at the very least 520 members (within the neighborhood) and 200 from outside. That’s the weakness inside the structure.

Because the community’s development plan was adopted in 1973, the 154-acre complicated has hosted many tennis tournaments and partnerred with Academia Sanchez-Casal, a youth tennis and academic training program.

That partnership ended before this year, Frederick says.

Collier County commissioners in January approved a request to allow the entrepreneurs to build a 48-room hotel around the club’s home. The golf club is about 20-acres large, neighbourhood users stated.