As our island fills with visitors for our busiest season, we hear from many visitors wondering what’s been happening on our Island since last season. The answer of course, is quite a bit as we are an active year-round community. What they really want to know is how the issues of last spring turned out.

The highlights for visitors based on the questions we hear are these…

Beach renourishmment for the north end of the Island, begun in May, wrapped up in December. There’s 300 feet of new sand from Bowditch Point to Crescent Beach Family Park.

Speaking of Crescent Beach Family Park, Lee County opened this new Gulf-front park with volleyball courts, tables, landscaping and lots of sand. The county also has been hard at work with Pier renovations, so stop by and visit our new park, pier and sand!

The Seafarer’s mall came down in June. Currently Lee County plans to pave it for a ground level parking lot. That debate continues.

All of the Island beach accesses now have recycling bins. Please use them! Let’s keep our beach clean!

You’ll notice a lot of signage changes on the Island. A sign ordinance was approved after 11 years in the making, so everywhere you look these days a sign is coming down or going up.

The Beach Library broke ground in April for their expansion and expects to have it completed this spring. Look for a Grand Opening this fall after renovations on the existing building are complete.