Downtown Cape Coral Florida — Local services in Cape Coral

It's been almost 25 years since I have painted a mural downtown Cape Coral. The times have certainly gone and definitely coming back again!. Back then, when the Cape was an extremely retiree and very conservative community, there was very little to do for the youth of the nation. A place where the word "coma" was infused and used as a descriptive metaphor. For those relocated youth from all major parts of United States where culture was an inherited part of the community, Cape Coral became an environmental shock at any genre. The Edison mall, Mike Greenwell's along with a few revolving night clubs were about it for commercial adventure around here. I remember the stories of Bags of flour being dropped from a plane to mark your future homesite. That was way before my time but the point being, the cape has come along a ways from then to now. Back in my hay day as a street artist here, Cape Coral didn't have a single tattoo shop. In fact, it wasn't until 1995 the Cape Coral's first tattoo shop opened up with plenty of bureaucracy objection, it was called "Huggy Bear tattoos" on del Prado right before the mid point bridge. The anticipated arrival of Six Flags Amusement Park never came, that was wishful thinking back then as the North Cape was often talked about hosting its location. By 2000, the opening of Gulf Coast University became the first sign of new ideas and energized hope for youth diversity to come in. Along with the energy of youth comes its imagination and the needed consumerism that sets up a community's economics. Change is difficult to establish, especially when it comes from the retirement communities and have already tested the wheels of imagination. Back then, I was (and I still am) a very colorful artistic statement maker. I turned Cape Coral and Ft. Myers into my commercial studio and blank canvas. I came in hard, bold and with statement. Perhaps too quick for the blowback to ever adapt to the signs of the times? I was doing things unheard of in the Cape. The Cape went from the 1950s to the 90's in warp drive, an extremely quick visual of Day Glow sign Language for sure! I introduced Cape Coral to its first legal graffito mural which was painted on the side of Maria's Pizzeria wall on 47th terreas and right behind Annies restaurant. I titled my provocative piece as" Read A Poem". It was my own definition of the innovational approach I took in painting Graffiti with a 3" roller and poly foam brushes. I still remember several of Cape Coral's police officers interrupting me on many occasions protesting my work and questioning its legalities. The entire concept of the piece was based exactly on that. "What if I paint Graffiti with conventional paint and established commercial painting tools?" How will the audiences perceive the work visually and how will they be forced to define it? I had my haters and many more admires(Thank you). The mural eventually made it into the Cape Coral's annual city calendar. Down town and the rest of the Cape has finally bloomed or better said, it is taking its full bloom to what it should-of-been 30 years ago. Recently though, they have cut down too many of the grandfather trees shadowing its streets (big mistake, environmentally and visually). Old McGregor Blvd inspires you to drive down its long two lane. A historical pathway of time and architecture. It stimulates the mind with throw back reflection and imagination. The Big John Plaza now looks like a portrait of a North Port Charlotte strip mall along its slow moving hot asphalt. There is still plenty of hope and culture development for Cape Coral's downtown. If you take its developmental time into consideration, it has definitely come a long way for such a short period of time. Especially from the days of a Del Prado dirt road airplane landing strip. All great things are coming to fruition. I can definitely see Cape Coral embraced very quickly with an assembly line of murals and...

Hoping to find my forever home in cape near palm tree blvd or Yacht Club area. Hope I can. The people are awsome. I'm no teenager, or young adult, but it should have more for kids to do, this way they don't venture out. For a place with 400 canals I'm surprised there's only one beach. This place ìs YUGE so I still haven't taken it all in. There's much more left to see. Ya Cape Coral is a great place, with great people, and beautiful Islands near by. Sanibel, world famous Captiva, and only 55 min to Naples, another 15 to Marco...

Nice and well kept area for the most part. Father's Day evening we went to no less than seven places to find a place to eat. Many were closed, too busy, or two places were out of food. It's got nice shops and places to eat. There are several places we look forward to trying. The farmers market is held there on Saturday mornings and parking can be a...