Breaking ground
Ground was broken Tuesday morning for a top-of-the-line, deluxe, gated motorcoach resort at the intersection of Burnt Store Road and Durden Parkway, overlooking beautiful Tranquility Lake.
Myriad Luxury Motorcoach Resort will provide recreational vehicle owners a plethora of opportunity to enjoy the 90-acre lake, onsite hospitality services, activities, events and more.
“What a fantastic setting,” said Cape Coral Mayor Joe Coviello, who was present at the groundbreaking. “This is a luxury facility, very high end, and a fantastic addition to the city. I can’t think of a better setting.”
The idea for the resort was a heavily disputed one, dating back to 2012, but eventually was approved when residents saw the full scope of the project.
“The politics of this was the biggest issue, getting over those hurdles initially,” said Bob Van de Bogert, partner/co owner of The Peachtree Group, which is developing the resort. “Getting the whole thing rezoned, getting all that approved, getting people to understand that a luxury motorcoach resort is not the same as a trailer park.”
When completed, the resort will accommodate 265, give or take, motorcoaches with customized West French Indies Island-style villas available for purchase.
“Well, it’s a lot of little things,” said Van de Bogert on what separates Myriad from a traditional RV park. “Our lots are wider. The vast majority of our lots are lake lots, that’s a big deal. It’s not just a lot out in a piece of swamp land, it’s a beautiful lake, that’s the biggest amenity we have here.”
Myriad will have a grandiose clubhouse, along with services such as a fitness facility, catering kitchen, open air bar, dining lounge, gaming room, infinity pool, boat house and docks, kayaking, fission, bicycling and much more.
“Our clubhouses are nicer, our coach house villas are better built and designed to be more efficient-it’s a unique thing,” said Van de Bogert.
“The opportunity to build the coach villas on this lot-that’s unique,” said Forge Development Group (which is also working on the project) Partner Andy Baldo. “Not that many places have that ability. And this is a big (opportunity) with 600 square feet of conditioned space.”
“You can have another six or eight hundred feet of unconditioned space that’s under roof where you could have your outdoor kitchen and a covered area where you can go out and entertain and then have that attached to your 600-square-foot conditioned space. It can be everything you need it to be,” added Van de Bogert.
Expected completion time is four years, though developers hope to start bringing in motorcoaches by spring of 2019.
It is a two-phase project, said Van de Bogert.
“First thing we’ve got to do is some excavation, we’ve got some earth work to do,” said Van de Bogert. “We’ve got the onsite and the offsite development work going on. So the whole time we’re moving dirt here, we’ll be bringing sewer through the property. That’s our first phase really.”
Motorcoaches will be able to start settling in once phase one is completed.
Above all else, this is a place that locals and motorhome enthusiasts can come visit.
“That’s part of this, I think that’s why we got the approvals we got,” said Baldo when asked about residents of Cape Coral getting to enjoy the new facility. “We listened to them, we listened to the community and what they wanted to see. And that was a high-end luxury park, and that’s exactly what we’re building. It’s what they (The Peachtree Group) built up in North Carolina, and we’re just going to bring that model down here and do it in Cape Coral.”
The aforementioned project Baldo referred to is the Mountain Falls Luxury Motorcoach Resort, that has received rave reviews from motorists, said those involved with Myriad.
Charlotte County will be providing utilities for a short time, and officials of the county were thanked by Mayor Coviello for assisting in this project.
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