Walk north on Gulf Shore Boulevard from the Moorings Property Owners Association's Beach Park on a September morning and you will pass a fenced lot at 1624 Gulf Shore Blvd. N. Nothing about it looks remarkable yet. A low, boxy building from another decade sits behind chain link, quiet since Hurricane Ian pushed storm surge through it in 2022. Most residents who pass it walking to coffee or biking toward Lowdermilk Park barely register it anymore. It has been vacant for four years.
That building is the last one of its kind left standing on this stretch of coastline, and by the time this fence comes down, it will be gone for good.
The Last of the Old Line
The Miracle Mile, the run of Gulf Shore Boulevard from Doctor's Pass down toward Naples Beach Club, now home to the Four Seasons Resort, earned its name from a specific storm rather than a general reputation. Real estate professionals point to how well homes along this stretch held up when Hurricane Ian hit in 2022, and the nickname stuck. The modest, 20-unit cooperative buildings built here in the 1960s were part of that same corridor, put up for a generation of Florida retirees who wanted a simple place near the water.
Hurricane Ian changed that math. One by one, the storm-damaged cooperatives along the Mile have been sold, cleared, and replaced by developments built to a different scale entirely. The Four Seasons Resort and the Rosewood Residences both rose from that same replacement cycle. The building at 1624 Gulf Shore was the final cooperative left on the strip, according to reporting after its 2025 sale. It was called the Naples Harbour Club, a midcentury-modern low-rise with 20 homes, and it sat waterfront on Hurricane Harbor, the same protected waterway that gives boaters in the Moorings and Coquina Sands their route out to Doctor's Pass and the Gulf.
That is the thesis worth sitting with before anything else in this post: the Moorings and its immediate neighbors are not experiencing one new development. They are watching the last physical piece of a specific architectural era disappear, closing out a rebuild cycle that started the night Ian made landfall.
What's Actually Rising at 1624 Gulf Shore
A Las Vegas-based ownership group, 1624 Gulfshore LLC, bought the property in 2025 for $17.5 million. County appraiser records identify the company's head as attorney Dominic Polizzotto, CEO of Pilot Grove Management, a firm formed by casino operator Jack Binion. The new project, called Harbour House, cleared the Naples Design Review Board unanimously on March 25, 2026.
What replaces the old cooperative is a collection of 14 boutique, single-family-style residences spread across three buildings, designed by Naples-based MHK Architecture with Borelli Construction of Naples as general contractor, R & Co. Designs handling interiors, and Outside Productions International on landscape. Prices are expected to range from $6.5 million to $10 million. Eleven boat slips, each able to hold a vessel up to 38 feet, are priced separately at $250,000 and connect straight out to the Gulf through Doctor's Pass.
Construction was slated to begin this summer, with the developer estimating a 20-month build. That points to a delivery somewhere in spring or summer 2028, which means anyone walking or biking this stretch of Gulf Shore Boulevard over the next year and a half should expect the fence, the equipment, and eventually the framing to become part of the daily scenery.
The approval process was not without friction, and it is worth knowing about if you live nearby. Jeff Miller, president of the neighboring Naples Casamore community, raised concerns during the review process about seismic monitoring during the site's seawall removal and about the new seawall's height relative to his own community's protection. Design Review Board members pushed for changes too. The final plans added permeable pavers to improve drainage, adjusted the driveway and sidewalks, and softened a wall and fence line along the boulevard. Parker Borelli of Borelli Construction summed up the process this way after the vote: the team took the time to meet with residents and hear their feedback before the design was finalized.
That kind of give and take is normal for waterfront redevelopment on a corridor this tightly built, and it is a good reminder for anyone watching a project rise near their own home that the version you see approved is rarely the first version submitted.
The Renovation That Beat the Bulldozer
Not every piece of the Moorings' 1960s bones is being torn down. Some of it is simply being redone, and one project beat the demolition crews to the finish line entirely.
The Moorings Golf & Country Club's 18-hole course was completed in 1963, making it one of the first developments in Naples to pair a private beach, a golf course, and a property owners' association into a single community. The club recently completed the biggest renovation in its history, a $5 million project that reworked its 15,253-square-foot clubhouse from the ground up. Members now walk into an indoor and outdoor bar that opens to a covered terrace overlooking the course, a refreshed Anchor Bar and Grille Room, and a lobby lounge built around a custom community table.
Put the two projects side by side and a pattern comes into focus. The Moorings is not one story about growth. It is two stories running at once: the parts of the neighborhood too damaged to save are being replaced by something larger and more expensive, while the parts that could be renovated in place are getting quieter, more personal updates that keep the original bones. Harbour House is the demolition story. The clubhouse is the restoration story. Both started from the same decade of construction, and both are landing in the same year.
A Walk That Still Works, For Now
If you live in the Moorings and want to see this history for yourself before the fence at 1624 Gulf Shore turns into an active job site, the walk is still an easy one this month.
Start at the Moorings Property Owners Association's own Beach Park, the members-only stretch of sand that gives residents here a quieter alternative to the public beach scene one neighborhood over. Head north along Gulf Shore Boulevard and you will pass directly across from Lowdermilk Park, the City of Naples' only public beachfront park and the reason Harbour House's own site describes the address as sitting "just steps from Lowdermilk Park." That contrast between the private, member-parked MPOA Beach Park and the fully public Lowdermilk across the street is one of the clearest lines separating the Moorings' lifestyle from its immediate neighbors, and it is worth knowing which one your own building or block actually belongs to before you plan a morning routine around it.
Loop back through the neighborhood and you will likely pass one of the newer additions to daily life here: a Bad Ass Coffee location, the Hawaii-founded chain's most recent Naples opening, tucked into the Moorings itself. It is a small thing next to a $17.5 million land sale, but it is the kind of small thing that actually changes a Tuesday morning, and it is new enough that longtime residents may not have found their order yet.
None of this changes overnight. The fence at 1624 Gulf Shore will likely stay up through most of 2027 as framing and finish work proceed toward that spring or summer 2028 delivery. But the walk that gets you past it, coffee in hand, past a clubhouse that finally looks like the club deserves, is the same walk residents have had for decades. It just will not look quite the same by the time Harbour House is finished, and after sixty years, the last of the old Miracle Mile will be a memory rather than a building you can point to.
If you are weighing what any of this means for your own property here, or you are simply curious how a redevelopment like Harbour House tends to move local pricing and interest along a corridor like this one, Michael Moreiras is always glad to talk it through. Let's Connect.
