Field Trip # 5: Downtown Fort Myers and Historical Museum

Historic Landmarks in Fort Myers:

• Centenial Park
  
  
  

• City of Palms Park
  

The old county court house

• The Veranda

Changing Role of Downt town: The olf downtown of Fort Myers used to be a place where families could go shopping and find social activities to explore. Today, dowtown has changed greatly overtime. With so many shopping malls around now, downtown businesses have fled and their really isn't much of anything to do dowtown other than eat and drink. They have started rebuilding the downtown area to look a lot better and hopefully attract more people.

Sustainability in an urban environment: In Fort Myers, the downtown area are trying new things to become more sustainable. It involves building our human needs while planning sustainably. Downtown wants to embrace the community and become a place where everyone can be regardless of race or income. This will involve the making of affordable housing, walkable retail districts, and state of the art cultural facilities such as art centers and museums.

It was nice to go downtown and look at all the historic buidings Fort Myers has to offer that I havent seen for a while, it was refreshing and fun. The museum was okay, they had some neat displays of Downtown Fort Myers that I hadn't seen and gave me a little history lesson on my Home town. Downtown needs to offer better and more affordable restaurants, upscale night life, and more social type events to bring the community together more. I feel with some improvements that are being made now downtown Fort Myers could be a very nice tourist attraction one day that everyone living here can be proud of.