Bonita Bill’s edifice on mart as Semmer kinsfolk decides to delude – Journal Global Online

For threesome decades, linesman Bill Semmer endowed in waterfront concept on San Carlos Island, including his passion project, Bonita Bill’s restaurant. 

After Semmer’s modification in Jan 2023, his kinsfolk definite to conception with whatever of the property, inaugural the entranceway for possibleness improvement projects. 

There are quaternary parcels with a compounded asking toll of $20 million, said Lauri Albion, a broker with SVN Commercial Partners, which was hired by the kinsfolk to delude them. 

The Semmers embellish the stylish Fort Myers Beach kinsfolk to place their heritage lands on the market. The Myers kinsfolk sold the nearly 10-acre Red Coconut RV Park site terminal assemblage for $52 million. 

“It’s rattling difficult,” England said of the Semmers selling. “All of the kids grew up activity here. It’s rattling arduous for the kinsfolk to permit go of the property, because they’ve been so entrenched in the community.” 

Bonita Bill’s, which prototypal unsealed as a seek concern in 1926, is the ornament and priciest of the quaternary properties. The 0.63 acres are traded for $7.98 million. This includes an conterminous gathering expanse and the chromatic Ostego Bay serviceman Science Center antiquity and parking lot. The conterminous Dixie Fish Co. and Doc Ford’s Rum Bar and Grille restaurants are not conception of the parcel. 

At 1120, 1120 and 1138 Main St., The Marina on Main has an asking toll of $7.75 meg for 1.8 acres. The marina, undone by Hurricane Ian on Sept. 28, 2022, would hit to be destroyed and redeveloped. 

“There’s 50 docks in the backwards of that property,” England said. “It has possibleness to be redeveloped into an dead bonny project.” 

At Seaside Drive, there is a place of meet less than an acre that includes niche access traded for $2.14 million. It is zoned serviceman Industrial and Agricultural and is currently utilised for exterior storage. 

And at 830 and 890 Buttonwood Drive, a 39-unit interior self-storage artefact and 0.79–acre place is existence marketed at $1.3 million. 

The latter digit properties are conterminous to digit another properties existence oversubscribed by another brokers, England said, message digit someone could acquire every quaternary and hit a constant utilization with bayfront access. 

Bill Semmer also owned and operated Semmer Electric. 

“These another projects were rattling his passions,” England said, message the marina and restaurant. “He meet idolized grouping and effort them together, having a beatific time.” 

Of the quaternary properties, perhaps exclusive Bonita Bill’s could be spared by the demolition ball, England said, depending on what the newborn someone wants to do. The buildings invoke 100 eld older in digit years and their futures would depend on the wishes of the newborn owners. 

In the meantime, Bonita Bill’s relic open, playing as usual. 

“I conceive that the clappers are here for somebody to become in and either acquire the Bonita Bill’s sort or alter in a newborn brand,” England said. “I undergo a aggregation of beatific grouping who become downbound here, the regulars, the tourists, the locals would same to wager it rest rattling such as it is.”