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Fort Myers council debates three potential sites for new city hall, asks staff for needs study
Summary
City officials discussed three options for a new Fort Myers city hall—the current downtown block, a Midtown News-Press site and the Lee Memorial/health campus—and directed staff to start a space needs assessment before proceeding with site acquisition or design.
City Manager Marty Long told the Fort Myers City Council on Jan. 13 that staff has identified three potential sites for a new city hall: the current downtown block, the News‑Press site in Midtown and property at the Lee Memorial/health campus, and that the council should narrow interest before staff spends time on detailed plans.
The council asked staff to complete a formal square‑footage needs assessment and to return with budget estimates and program plans. "We want to have a preliminary discussion before we go too much further and decide which sites the council is primarily interested in so we gain more and gather more information and facts and come back and call it…
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