The Fort Myers City Council is preparing to vote on the complete demolition of City of Palms Park, ending decades of debate over the fate of the vacant baseball stadium that hasn’t been used for professional games for 20 years.
Watch Fort Myers Community Correspondent Miyoshi Price’s report:
Fort Myers residents weigh in as City of Palms Park demolition looms
Barbara Washington, who has lived across the street from the park for eight years, remembers when the stadium brought life to her downtown neighborhood. She moved to Jackson Plaza eight years ago and recalls the excitement the ballpark once generated.
“At night, I used to love the way the lights would light up the whole street, and then I would hear the ball games being announced, and the runs and all of that,” Washington said. “It just made the neighborhood so much fun and nice, and it made me feel like I didn’t leave the city.”…