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Estero’s Germain Arena is not only home to the Florida Everblades Hockey Team and championship
winning Florida Tarpons arena football team, but also host a variety of concerts and cultural events.
(Graphic Illustration by Bill Schiller and Kevin Bires Photography)

FENWAY SOUTH - Only minutes from Estero, Jet Blue Stadium, also known as Fenway
South, serves as the home-away-from-home for the Boston Red Sox.

Miromar Design Center features 45 showrooms touting the expertise of leading interior
designers and manufactures of home goods.

Southwest Florida has been heralded as “The Golf Capital of the
World,” but Estero is at the epicenter of all this activity. Some of
the region’s top courses can be found here, including: Old Corkscrew (the only stand alone Jack Nicklause Signature Course in
the region); Wildcat Run (an Arnold Palmer course that he once
suggested as being among the finest in the Southeastern U.S.);
and Stoneybrook (recognized among the longest courses in the
region).
Beyond the shops, restaurants, sports and other attractions,
both McGreevy and Comisar note that residents can also readily
connect with schools, churches, healthcare and a range of professional service providers. As McGreevy says, “Estero has it all,
and that’s why so many want to live here.”

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That point is validated by a recent MetroStudy report that
ranked the Naples/Fort Myers MSA as being among the nation’s
“Top Ten” for sales of new residential construction. Though
Naples/Fort Myers was credited for that distinction, McGreevy
says the analysis of data included sales transactions involving
several developments in Estero. “Our region’s ranking was totally
bolstered by the demand for homes in Estero,” says McGreevy,
who goes as far as to credit Estero as a catalyst for so much of
the new construction currently taking place in the region. “After
the housing debacle, many developers sat on property and
waited for clear indications that the market was turning around
before determining to proceed with development.”
In 2013, the development firm of Camerrata Companies collaborated with national building firms of Pulte Homes and Lennar
Homes to create a new master-planned residential community
called The Preserve at Corkscrew. Sites here sold faster than the
builders could build; it became the fastest selling new development in the region, and to McGreevy’s point, the success of that
helped fuel greater confidence among developers involved with
other projects. There are several new developments now underway in Estero, such as Estero Place and Corkscrew Shores. The
Corkscrew Shores development marks yet another collaboration
between Pulte and Camerrata Companies,