The Alico Road corridor, to the northwest and northeast of Interstate 75 in Lee County, continues to surge with new projects.
About 100,000 vehicles per day travel past that intersection. Drivers looking to the east can see caravans of dump trucks and loaders doing site work on what will be known as Gulf Landing Logistics Center.
Butters Construction and Development broke ground on what tentatively is planned to be up to 13 buildings totaling 2.2 million square feet of warehouse and industrial space on a parcel that sold in May 2022 for $40 million.
The project will be built in two phases, with phase one construction starting now and completion scheduled for summer 2024. The first phase will have seven buildings combining for 750,000 square feet, said Jerry Messonnier, a broker with Lee & Associates Naples-Fort Myers who’ll be working to fill those vacancies on behalf of Butters.
“You’re going to get a combination of warehouse and some flex buildings,” Messonnier said. “The proximity to the airport and the proximity to I-75 makes it a fantastic location. You can’t do residential here with the planes coming in. But I would say this is the premier industrial location in Southwest Florida.”
The northwest quadrant of that Alico Road intersection is geared more toward retail and some residential, with a 264-unit apartment complex called Centro nearing completion.
A Home Depot is under construction and slated to open by the end of this year along with a Wawa gas station and convenience store. 
A Floor & Décor is almost finished and scheduled to open by the end of May.
“Alico Road is a perfect example of an area that is still deserving of big box retail,” said Justin Thibaut, CEO of LSI Companies. “And the type of retail that’s going in on Alico Road is exactly what we want to see. Because Alico is right on the precipice between an industrial zone and the residential zone to the south.
“Floor & Décor moving in and Home Depot moving in, they’re perfect users for a market that’s right on the cusp of the residential to the south and Three Oaks. And industrial to the north with Amazon and Oriole Road and that corridor.”
