Naples readers have been asking about Pelican Bay’s Tamiami Trail bookend plazas, with Waterside Shops to the south and The Marketplace center that Publix calls home to the north at Vanderbilt Beach Road.
Tom Ulanski had particular interest in the former Barnes & Noble outparcel we had previously written about that’s been crumbling down in Waterside. Jim Tegan and Larry Hughes have been nudging In the Know about the planned Sunshine Ace by the Publix.
Here’s what to know on that and a major milestone for a half-century iconic “jewel” where dramatic changes are poised to occur.
Reader question: What’s happening with old Barnes & Noble?
Let’s start with the much more incredibly active Waterside, where we first told you last year the specifics about what was going on with the old Barnes outparcel left vacant after the book store opened its new home January in the former Big Lots at Naples Park Shore at U.S. 41 and Neapolitan Way…