Tag: Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association

The GICIA celebrates 40th anniversary of island’s cherished Bike Path

BY MISTY NICHOLSEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association (GICIA) is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the cherished GICIA Bike Path. Originally opened...

Bike trail landscaping discussion

December 19, 2024
Staff Report
News, Sports & Outdoors

This week, the GICIA sent out a letter to the island talking about the planning for a significant restoration effort within the Town Park area of the GICIA Bike Path between 3rd and 5th Streets....

Recovery process for GICIA property, landscaping

December 12, 2024
Boca Beacon
News, Sports & Outdoors

Summer restoration projects held up well SUBMITTED BY THE GICIA The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association (GICIA) is making good progress after the double whammy of...

Cleanup needed in aisle everywhere including downtown

November 7, 2024
Garland Pollard
Breaking News, News

Town trash still on county agenda; looking at options Three weeks after the departure of Hurricane Milton, there are piles of trash still littering the island. And where the piles have been...

The GICIA helps CCA deploy 40 tons of oysters in Turtle Bay

September 12, 2024
Staff Report
News, Sports & Outdoors

In August, the Coastal Conservation Association Florida partnered with Ingman Marine, Abbott Construction, Lee Reefs, Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association (GICIA), Capt. Jay...

Gasparilla Inn asks to be ‘Public and Community Benefit’ at Lee meeting

Two items on the Lee County Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024 would allow The Gasparilla Inn and properties to be found a “public and community benefit” to presumptively be...

Major landscaping for 5th Street Boca Grande gateway

BY THE GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSSERVATION & IMPROVEMENT ASSOC. The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association has announced the initiation of two significant bike path...

Local support for our tourism ‘commons’

March 14, 2024
Garland Pollard
Editorial

In the English tradition, there is the common. Not common as an adjective, as in ordinary, but the “common” as a noun, as in the places that we all own together, as a public. Many here on...

GICIA celebrates 50-year anniversary with restoration of walking path curbing

SUBMITTED BY THE GICIA – The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association is pleased to announce that the work to restore the GICIA Walking Path began on Tuesday, June 1. The...

LCSO recognizes GICIA’s bike path safety efforts

May 9, 2021
Marcy Shortuse
News

SUBMITTED BY THE GICIA – In 1985 the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association completed construction of the five miles of paved bike path that runs from First Street...