Creciente Condos celebrates Beautification Nomination
The Town of Fort Myers Beach/Chamber of Commerce Alliance Beautification Recognition for “Commercial” property, this month, goes to Creciente Condominium Association at 7150 Estero Blvd. Creciente also completed a Town Streetscape Project. Congrats to you!
Back in July of this year, Creciente began taking down the 35-year-old Madagascar Olive trees that lined their property fences. The small olives that continued to fall from these trees proved to be a nuisance and hazardous to residents. Thinking these trees needed to be replaced, Ceel Spuhler, a Creciente resident and an FMB advisory committee member for many years, teamed up with Creciente Condo Association Manager Mary Beth Marino and called the Town asking what Creciente could do to be part of the Town’s Streetscape program.
Creciente North, East and South Associations met and proposed to plant 49 Cabbage Palms on this site. They reasoned these trees would provide a tropical canopy that would be visible from Estero Boulevard, Santini Plaza and commercial and residential properties located to the north and south of the area mentioned.
After all conditions were met by Creciente Condo Association, per the Town’s Streetscape program, the planting began and you see here the finalized undertaking.
The Streetscape program was designed with the idea of creating a tropical canopy on Town streets, while providing expanses of shade that beautify, cool, provide wildlife habitat and clean the air of toxins produced in urban life. For more information on this program and to see if it fits into your neighborhood, call the Town at (239) 765-0202.
submitted by Lois Poff, Community Development, Town of Fort Myers Beach