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Housing Authority offers Carrie Robinson Center to Fort Myers; council to study gift and adjacent property talks continue
Summary
The Fort Myers Housing Authority proposed deeding the Carrie Robinson Center to the city; staff toured the building and described its condition and potential uses. The authority also discussed a separate possibility to negotiate the sale of roughly 60 acres west of Billy Bowlegs for future green space or park expansion.
The Fort Myers Housing Authority has offered to deed the Carrie Robinson Center to the City of Fort Myers and discussed additional property negotiations involving roughly 60 acres west of Billy Bowlegs.
The offer matters because the center is an established community facility with a kitchen, meeting spaces, offices and site infrastructure that could be used for community programming, municipal meetings or as temporary office space for Parks & Recreation while other facilities are addressed; the adjacent 60‑acre parcel could provide larger green space or park connectivity if the city and housing…
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