Lee Memorial Hospital buys I-75 land for future expansion

BUYER: Lee Memorial Hospital Inc. (principals: John Noland, Joseph Catti, Garrett Reasoner, Charles Edwards Sr., Bruce Strayhorn, Carl Barraco, Jo Ellen Beauvois, Albert Winchell, Chris Gair, Dawson McDaniel and Douglas Dodson), Fort Myers
SELLER: WDK Investments LLC
PROPERTY: a portion of land west of Interstate 75 north of Colonial Boulevard, Fort Myers
PRICE: $1.4 million
PREVIOUS PRICE: $8.71 million (includes additional land), October 2005
LAW FIRM ON DEED: Henderson Franklin Starnes & Holt PA, Fort Myers

PLANS, DESCRIPTION:
Lee Memorial Hospital Inc. purchased about 14 acres of vacant land east of Ortiz Avenue and west of Scofield Street for $1.4 million.

The property is north of Lee Memorial Regional Cancer and the Outpatient Center at the Sanctuary.

The hospital purchased the property to allow the Regional Cancer Center to expand in the future, according to Mary Briggs, spokeswoman for Lee Memorial Health System.

The health system's facilities in that area already provides primary and specialty care physician offices, diagnostic imaging, cancer treatment, a spine center and lab services from the existing facilities.