A 7.63-acre Fort Myers parcel is slated to become an affordable housing community that will be known as Towles Gardens and will have 140 units.
Prince Jones, a native of New York, moved to the area and became CEO of My-Canvas Inc. He is collaborating with Frankie Jennings, CEO of F.J. Services Sales & Marketing, which is spearheading this project with the help of area developer Robert MacFarlane.
Roy Kennix also has been involved with the project, expected to cost at least $30 million.
Slated to be built at the southwest corner of Veronica Shoemaker Boulevard and Edison Avenue, Towles Gardens will give low-income residents the rare opportunity to buy townhomes and villas and have the chance to earn equity on them instead of helping a landlord to pay his or her own mortgage with rent.
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A 7.63-acre Fort Myers parcel is slated to become an affordable housing community that will be known as Towles Gardens and will have 140 units.
Prince Jones, a native of New York, moved to the area and became CEO of My-Canvas Inc. He is collaborating with Frankie Jennings, CEO of F.J. Services Sales & Marketing, which is spearheading this project with the help of area developer Robert MacFarlane.
Roy Kennix also has been involved with the project, expected to cost at least $30 million.
In the city of Fort Myers, each member of the city council has $5,000 in discretionary funds through which public groups can receive donations of city funding for worthy programs.
This week, Councilman Liston Bochette questioned whether the council does a good enough job of vetting distribution of the funds, recalling his disappointment with one group he chose to fund during his prior term. I had distributed some discretionary funds and was dissatisfied by the lack of reports I got back on how that money was used, Bochette said. It makes sense that if we re going to be disbursing public funds, taxpayers money, that we follow a procedure, a letter or request a proposal how that money would be used.