More than 300 construction workers and subcontractors ate good food, gave away prizes and planted a magnolia tree Friday atop The Resort at MarinaVillage in Tarpon Point. The single building is now Cape Coral’s tallest at 19 stories and 220 feet. The project cost $150 million.

The Resort at MarinaVillage will have 184 units ranging from 1,235 square feet to 2,195 square feet. The project also will include 45,000 square feet of leasable retail space as well as two public waterfront restaurants, two bars, multiple shops and 175 public wet slips to make it accessible by boat.

Expected completion is September 2009. We’ll be patiently waiting for this very exciting project to build out. And we’ll be among the first to hop on the boat and dock in one of those new public wet slips and hit the new restaurants.

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