Southwest Florida-based water bottle manufacturer Coldest signed a lease to move its headquarters and warehouse to 52,866 square feet of warehouse and office space at the 72-acre Tri-County 75 industrial park in Fort Myers, developer Glenstar Logistics announced. After outgrowing its 15,000-square-foot warehouse elsewhere in Fort Myers, the online retailer will use the space at the new industrial campus, 6115-6150 Tri-County Commerce Way at the southeast corner of the Interstate 75 interchange at Luckett Road, to store its products and pack and ship orders. This will be Coldest’s fourth headquarters since the company began in 2015. Lee & Associates Naples-Fort Myers brokered the lease on behalf of the owners of Tri-County 75 and Coldest. Tri-County 75 general contractor The Conlan Co. will build out 1,400 square feet of office space for Coldest. The industrial park is approximately 40% pre-leased. Ferguson Enterprises, a national distributor of plumbing and HVAC supplies, signed a 252,860-square-foot lease in November 2022 and will be relocating its regional distribution center to Building 3 of the campus this fall.

Jones Loop BDE LLC purchased 10.48 acres in the Enterprise Charlotte Airport Zone at the corner of Jones Loop and Piper Roads, lots B, D and E, in Punta Gorda from Jones Loop Investors LLC for $3,068,366. Adam Bornhorst, Derek Bornhorst, SIOR, CCIM, Bob Johnston, SIOR, and Jerry Messonnier, SIOR, of Lee & Associates Naples-Fort Myers represented the seller, and Randy Krise of Krise Real Estate Group represented the buyer.

Restaurateurs Rick Wahlstedt and Joe King are opening their French-Vietnamese concept Le Colonial in downtown Naples in late November. The restaurant will make its home at 445 Fifth Avenue S. and span more than 6,500 square feet, including a 74-seat dining room, a 40-seat lounge and bar and a 64-seat al-fresco patio. Showcasing the French-Vietnamese cuisine will be Vietnamese chef and cookbook author Nicole Routhier and National Culinary Director Hassan Obaye. Le Colonial, which also has locations in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Delray Beach and Lake Forest, Illinois, bills itself as a celebration of the spirit and flavors of Saigon in the 1920s.

More than a year after Hurricane Ian, the Federal Emergency Management Agency set up trailers in the hard-hit neighborhood of Harlem Heights in Lee County. FEMA placed 13 families in the trailers, noting it was the last group in the area awaiting temporary housing, WINK News reports.

Community Foundation of Collier County awarded a $30,000 grant to Fun Time Early Childhood Academy. The grant aims to bolster the operational capabilities of the nonprofit, which provides safe, quality and affordable education and care for children and parents from low-income working families, and enhance its nationally accredited early learning program. The funds will be allocated across crucial areas essential to the nonprofit’s mission.