Downtown Fort Myers is a few square blocks of restored hope.
And it’s partly because of smart and aggressive people like Rene Miville. The Captiva business man has just opened the Miville Gallery, an edgy and engaging space on the second floor of his Franklin Shops retail cooperative on First Street in the River District. The Franklin building anchors one end of the downtown. Miville purchased the historic corner building in 2003. It’s evolution was slow, but the Franklin Shops have caught fire. The Miville Gallery has added an ingredient of vitality that only art and art patrons provide, he said.
The River District, he said, “has made a major turn. It’s much healthier. Too many of us now have skin in the game.”
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