When I hear the word downtown it brings me to my hometown in Arcadia, Florida. They have an old opera house, really old traffic lights (without cameras), an old train station that has been made into a real estate office but still looks original. Basically, a shootout could bust out in the streets at anytime between the cowboys. Heres some photos so you can get the idea....
Downtown Fort Myers has somewhat of the same historical feeling to it. Down some of the streets where it was quite and old fashioned looking kind of reminded me of Arcadia. Fort myers is experiencing somewhat of a renaisance because I feel like they're trying to get that old fashioned downtown feeling back. By encouraging walking, eating outside, and providing you with some historical monuments to look at. Like the Edison fountains and the big black statue guy from the war. Theres also the Art Museum building which the front and some of the sides were made out of coral, which was really cool. I think a lot of the buildings had their own nods to history, the buildings outside of the pizza place we stopped at looked really cool, like really old buildings that were abandoned, which I think should be made into apartments. I also thought that the Olympic building we visited was very cool. It's only downfall is the lack of knowledge that the place even exists! Another thing that really connected with me was the fact that the area was where the people in the book 'A Land Remembered' brought their cattle to ship off. I think downtown Fort Myers has potential, they just need to do more to get the people engaged to get out and walk around, but with how lazy people are these days, I don't see that happening, at least until the cooler months of the year!
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