Here’s some important news for those of you who own property fronting on Homestead Road. The Lee County Department of Transportation is widening Homestead Road to four lanes. The project will run for 2 ¼ miles, from south of Sunrise Boulevard to Alabama Road. The project will include on-road bike lanes and the addition of
If you’ve traveled on Bonita Beach Road, you know it’s been under some construction over the past couple of years. Well . . . the Bonita Beach Road widening project continues to move forward. Lee County DOT is designing the road widening plans for Phase III of the project. Phase III is two miles long
In this post, we will highlight the third segment in the seven-segment, 23-mile long State Road 82 widening project. The third segment runs from Alabama Road to Homestead Road. According to the project’s website, “FDOT is preparing design plans to expand State Road 82 from two to four lanes from Alabama Road to Homestead
As the late, great sports broadcaster, Harry Caray, used to say, “Holy cow!” It appears my observation in our September 12, 2013 post, that “a lot has happened on this topic since our July 29, 2013 post!,” was an understatement. This story has moved fast! Between the time we began preparation of the September
Wow! A lot has happened on this topic since our July 29, 2013 post! The developments over the last six weeks are significant because one city (Richmond, California) may be close to making a decision whether to use eminent domain to acquire underwater mortgages, while another (North Las Vegas, Nevada) has decided it will not
Here are four things to know about the Lee County Department of Transportation’s proposed Alico Road widening project that runs from west of Ben Hill Griffin Parkway to east of Airport Haul Road. We learned these when we reviewed the Alico Road Alignment Study Report.
Number 1: Right now, the average daily traffic
Number 1: In case you missed it, there are a number of road improvement projects underway in Lee County.
Number 2: To help you keep up with all of the Lee County Department of Transportation’s road projects, I will post updates under the title “Lee County Road Roundup.”
Number 3: The Lee
Property owners along State Road 82 between Shawnee Road and Alabama Road, whose property is needed for the State Road 82 widening project, can expect to receive offers from the Florida Department of Transportation perhaps about seven months from now. As of August 9, 2013, according to the FDOT, the negotiations for right-of-way
The Florida Department of Transportation recently updated its Five-Year Work Program webpage for the Colonial/Lee Boulevard to Shawnee Road segment of the State Road 82 widening project. According to the FDOT’s update, appraisals for properties needed for the Colonial/Lee Boulevard to Shawnee Road segment of the widening project are scheduled for January 31, 2014
Since our last update on this topic, several events have taken place, so it’s time for another update! Last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York posted on its website a paper written by Robert Hockett, a professor of financial and monetary law at Cornell Law School, and a recent visiting scholar at the