Maurice Gutierrez didn’t have a gray hair when he first heard of a proposal to build a connecting boardwalk to Sugden Regional Park in East Naples.
As Collier County cut the ribbon on the long-awaited Bayshore Boardwalk on Feb. 26, a silver-haired Gutierrez celebrated the feat — a feat that took more than two decades to achieve.
For more than 20 years, Gutierrez has sat on the Bayshore Gateway Triangle Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Advisory Board, which spearheaded the project. For much of his time on the board, he’s served as its chairman…