Gulf Shore Boulevard Has Four Projects Running At Once. Only One Of Them Ends This Year.

Drive Gulf Shore Boulevard North through the Moorings this month and you will pass at least two active cranes, a stretch of torn-up pavement with detour signage, and a building that has sat dark since a hurricane three years ago. It looks like one long construction zone. It is actually four separate projects, each running on its own schedule, and only one of them is scheduled to wrap before the year is out.

That distinction matters if you live along this corridor. The city's stormwater work under your feet is temporary. The buildings rising around it are not going anywhere, and neither is the timeline attached to them.

What's Actually Running Right Now

Four things are happening on or near Gulf Shore Boulevard North at the same time:

• 3300 Gulf Shore — twin eight-story towers under construction on the former Executive Club site, targeting delivery in the fourth quarter of 2027
• Harbour House — a 14-residence project at 1604, 1614 and 1624 Gulf Shore Blvd N, in presale with a 2028 delivery target
• 2020 Gulf Shore — 15 residences across two boutique buildings south of Doctors Pass, also targeting 2028
• The Naples Beach Stormwater Outfall Project — an $86 million city infrastructure job tearing up the right-of-way, expected to finish by late 2026

Three of those are private residential developments that will still be under construction well after the road crews are gone. The fourth is public works with a firm end date. Knowing which is which tells you whether the mess outside your window is almost over or just getting started.

The Building Everyone Asks About

The most-discussed site on the boulevard used to be the Executive Club, a four-story cooperative built in 1969 with 46 units and views over Outer Doctors Bay. Owners chose not to restore it after years of wear, and the building came down in 2023. Kolter Urban bought the 3.07-acre site in early 2025 for $92.5 million and broke ground on 3300 Gulf Shore on January 29, 2026.

What's replacing it is a different scale of building entirely. Two eight-story towers, East and West, will hold 51 residences ranging from roughly 2,000 to 7,500 square feet, with five penthouses at the top end. The Gulf Shore Association of Condominiums, which tracks changes along this stretch for its member buildings, has noted these will be the tallest structures on the east side of Gulf Shore Boulevard North in the Moorings once complete.

Construction has already moved past the invisible stages. Crews finished perimeter seawall reconstruction earlier this year and moved into deep foundation piling, work you would not see from the road but that has to happen before anything rises above grade. Vertical concrete framing is expected to continue through the rest of 2026, with keys delivered to owners in the fourth quarter of 2027. The project is designed by MHK Architecture, a Naples-based firm, with BCBE Construction handling the build. When it's finished, residents will have a private marina with 16 slips for boats up to 50 feet, two resort-style pools, and the same access to the Moorings Beach Park that comes with any Moorings Property Owners Association membership.

Two More Towers You Haven't Seen Yet

3300 Gulf Shore isn't the only new construction on this corridor, just the furthest along. A few blocks south, Harbour House is in presale at 1604, 1614 and 1624 Gulf Shore Blvd N, with 14 residences starting around $6.5 million and a 2028 delivery target. Its sales gallery is open, but there's no vertical construction to see yet.

Further south, past Doctors Pass, Golub & Company and Barron Collier Companies are building 2020 Gulf Shore on one of the last remaining Gulf-to-bay sites in this part of Naples, directly across from Moorings Beach Park. The project is deliberately small: just 15 residences split between two buildings, each home between roughly 3,700 and 4,100 square feet. Lee Golub, the firm's managing partner, has described the site's scarcity directly:

"Once an opportunity like this is gone, it's not something that shows up again somewhere else."

Both projects are targeting 2028 delivery, which means the boulevard will have at least three buildings under active construction simultaneously well into next year, regardless of what happens with the road beneath them.

The Part That Actually Ends This Year

The disruption most residents are feeling right now, the detours, the lane closures, the torn-up swales, comes from a different source entirely. The city's Naples Beach Stormwater Outfall Project is removing eight aging outfall pipes that currently discharge stormwater straight into the Gulf, replacing them with a system designed to handle a 25-year storm event instead of a 5-year one. The project runs along the Gulf Shore Boulevard right-of-way between Oleander Drive and just south of 2nd Avenue South, and it carries an $86 million price tag, with $40 million of that coming from state legislative appropriations.

Crews have been working pump stations at both 8th Avenue North and 3rd Avenue North, with beach access at those points closed through the summer. The broader project has been targeted for completion by the end of 2026. That means the road work causing the detours and torn-up landscaping you're driving around should be finished well before any of the three residential towers reach completion. Once it wraps, the boulevard's remaining disruption will come entirely from private construction, not city infrastructure.

The Building That Never Came Back, Until It Did

A few doors from the new construction sits a building with a longer, quieter story. The Naples Continental Club, an eight-story, 128-unit building at 3443 Gulf Shore Blvd N, took serious damage during Hurricane Ian in September 2022 and sat unoccupied for years afterward. The building's deep pilings kept it from catastrophic structural failure, but portions of the non-load-bearing slab needed full replacement, and the rebuild took significantly longer than first planned.

Owners had offers to sell and start over. They chose instead to rebuild. The Gulf Shore Association of Condominiums, which has followed the building's recovery closely, has since described the turnaround as a genuine comeback for the property, crediting the board and ownership group for staying the course through a difficult and expensive restoration. No firm reopening date has been published, but the shift in tone from delayed and unoccupied to a completed physical recovery marks a real change from where things stood as recently as 2023.

A Fifth Clock, Running Quieter

There's one more piece of this that isn't about the boulevard itself. The Moorings Golf & Country Club, the private club anchoring the neighborhood's interior, already completed a $5 million clubhouse renovation, including a refreshed Anchor Bar & Grille Room. A separate golf course renovation is planned for 2027, aimed at modernizing the course's infrastructure while keeping the shorter, walkable layout that has always defined it. It's a smaller project than anything happening on Gulf Shore Boulevard, but it puts the neighborhood's change on a longer runway than the road work alone would suggest.

Put together, the corridor is not recovering from one disruption. It's absorbing four overlapping ones, on four different schedules, only one of which is public and only one of which ends this year.

If you've been trying to figure out which orange cones are temporary and which cranes are permanent, Yvonne Burnham and the Burnham Group keep a close eye on every project changing the Moorings skyline and are always glad to walk through what's actually happening on your stretch of the boulevard. Let's Connect.