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Cameratta Properties Breaks New Ground with Its $150 Million First Street Village Mixed-Use Community.


FORT MYERS Fort Myers, city (1990 pop. 45,206), seat of Lee co., SW Fla., on the Caloosahatchee River, near the Gulf of Mexico; founded 1850, inc. 1905. It has a tourist trade and light industry and is a shipping point for citrus fruits, winter vegetables, flowers (especially , Fla. -- Once a lackluster lack·lus·ter  
adj.
Lacking brightness, luster, or vitality; dull. See Synonyms at dull.

Adj. 1. lackluster - lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
, diminished town - Fort Myers, Fl., is now on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955.  of a new era. Cameratta Properties L.P. of Cleveland, with offices in Fort Myers, has broken new ground with its High Point Place and First Street Village projects.

The grand vision of southwest Florida Southwest Florida is a region of Florida located along its gulf coast, south of the Tampa Bay area, west of Lake Okeechobee and mostly north of the Everglades. It consists of five coastal counties from Manatee County south to Collier County, although it sometimes is considered to  is now becoming a reality as the First Street Village groundbreaking marks the future for Fort Myers' River District. First Street Village is the newest mixed-use community in Fort Myers. It will bring a mix of office, retail and residential space unlike any other single community in southwest Florida.

The groundbreaking event will be held from 2-3 pm on Nov. 1 at the First Street Village site, located at 2164 West First Street, on the corner of McGregor Blvd and Altamont Ave.
Special guests and presenters will include:

1. The Honorable Jim Humphrey, Mayor of Fort Myers
2. Don Paight, executive director of the Fort Myers Redevelopment
   Agency
3. Dr. Hank Fishkind, professor and acclaimed expert in economic and
   financial forecasting
4. Members of the Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce


"The key to a vibrant downtown is to give people a reason to stay downtown," said Joe Cameratta, chief executive officer of Cameratta Properties. "Our vision for First Street Village is to give the entire surrounding business and residential community the complete lifestyle experience."

About Cameratta Properties

Cameratta Properties is a full-service, diversified diversified (di·verˑ·s  real estate company in the commercial and residential markets, headquartered in Broadview Heights, Ohio Broadview Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 15,967 at the 2000 census. Geography
Broadview Heights is located at  (41.321827, -81.
. With more than 23 years of experience, Cameratta has built and designed a variety of projects in an array of industries, including: residential developments, golf courses, retail plazas, shopping centers shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into , hospitality and financial facilities.

High Point Place and First Street Village in Fort Myers, Fla., are among some of the premier lifestyle communities Cameratta Properties is currently undertaking.

For more information on Cameratta Properties and its projects, or to obtain high-resolution images or setup interviews, please call Ralph Davila at 330-207-5167 or email ralph@jcpowerllc.com , or visit our Web site at www.cameratta.com.
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