“It’s just amazing,” Aguilera says. “I just feel very honored to be a part of it.”
The sculpture garden has always been planned for the arts venue, even before it opened in 2008 inside a former post office and federal courthouse in downtown Fort Myers.
“When we acquired the building in 2003, I knew then that I eventually wanted to build out the roof as a sculpture garden,” says Jim Griffith, founder and director of Davis Art Center. “Therefore, every phase of construction we did involved improvements to the building that allowed access to the roof.”
The project was originally scheduled to open in February 2019, but that got delayed. And then it got delayed again.