Naples City Council approved a new corporate-housing concept that will allow traveling actors, designers and other theater professionals to live next door to Gulfshore Playhouse while they work, rehearse and perform.
A four-level, 366-space public garage, the city’s third, is being built on the southwest corner of 12th Street and First Avenue South, west of Goodlette-Frank Road next to the Naples Square development. The land was provided by the Wynn family and Gulfshore Playhouse, whose new theater will use 123 parking spaces.
The garage is being funded by the city Community Redevelopment Agency — money from taxpayers whose homes and businesses are within the 550-acre CRA district, which is bounded by Seventh Avenue North, Gordon River, Sixth Avenue South and Third Street South. Last month, the CRA approved a change to the theater’s valet-parking contract, giving it 123 spaces on the first two floors, instead of the top floor, three hours before each theater show date.
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