The Gulf Gate Shopping Center, at the corner of U.S. 41 and Bayshore Road, has been renovated, a second phase was added to the Naples Towne Center, the K-Mart located in the Naples Towne Center has expanded and the Courthouse Shadows Shopping Center was completed in 1989. Two new office buildings were added to the East Naples market along U.S. 41 and a new Walmart shopping center is planned for construction next to The Collier County Office Building. Naples International Park, located directly across from St. Andrews Blvd., will begin infrastructure improvements shortly. This 65 acre business park is designed to provide sites for business and professional offices, light manufacturing, motion picture and television production, medical facilities, laboratories, restaurants and hotels as well as research, design and product development facilities. In late 1992, Lely Development donated 10 acres of Naples International Park, fronting on U.S. 41, to the Naples Community Hospital.
Initial plans call for construction of an outpatient services and urgent care center.
The donation requires construction to begin by 1996. Two residential projects, Eagle Creek, located 2.5 miles southeast of St. Andrews Square along U.S. 41 at S.R. 951, and Windstar, located along Bayshore Road on Naples Bay, are currently under development with a total of 1,409 residential units either built or under construction. Lely Resort, a 3,800 acre project located southeast of St. Andrews Square between Lely Estates and S.R. 951, is now under construction. When completed, Lely Resort will consist of 10,100 residential units, three 18 hole golf courses, a resort hotel, a Collier County public school and the campus of Edison Community College. The hotel will bear the Westin name and contain 350 rooms.