A new two-story speakeasy is coming to the Richards building in downtown Fort Myers.
Your Fort Myers community correspondent, Miyoshi Price, has been following the controversy over the Richards building for months. Now, the business owners are moving in, and tell Fox 4 the speakeasy will add to the historic beauty of downtown.
Watch below to take a look inside the speakeasy:
The Richards Building in Fort Myers will be home to a new SPEAKEASY called Escondido Lounge
“Thomas Edison, Connie Mack, Ty Cobb, and RC Richards were all in this building itself,” says Brad Cozza, co-owner of Escondido Lounge.
He named a few historic names that paved the way for the new speakeasy, Escondido Lounge.
Cozza goes into detail about the conversation he had with RC Richards’s great-granddaughter, Whitney. She spoke on behalf of her family when she learned the color of the building was different from the original paint and her family’s name was removed from the building.
Fort Myers City Council voted to leave the white stain as is, which Whitney says hurt her and many people in Fort Myers.