Peace Tropical Gardens LLC aka The Hut at 5150 Buckingham Rd Ft Myers, FL to Shows Team Enterprises LLC based in Arcadia, FL at 7500 SW County Road 769. for $1,900,000 on August 30, 2022.
The Hut has long been one of my favorite places, the surrounding grounds are so peaceful….but both came alive when Tommy Lee Cook was on site. Tommy Lee has a way with the guitar, and hospitality …..and I hope in his next leg of life’s journey is filled with as much happiness as he’s given to others over the years~it’s time for him to “go getcha” some ____fill in the blank after ya ask Tommy what he wants please________!
The go gethca some is a classic Tommy Lee saying….that’s why I wrote it that way, ask him what he’s got on his list of to do’s bucket list 🙂
The name “Peaceful Gardens” back story:
Once upon a time, a beautiful Tahitian princess traveled to a remote land to live. Her husband, a world traveler, dreamed of creating a world-class tropical garden there and succeeded in his ambition, importing unusual plants from all over the world.
Princess Ramira Stephagee and her husband, Edwin Peace, raised their son and daughter and entertained the likes of fellow plant devotee Thomas Edison in this tropical paradise today known as Buckingham, a quiet community east of Fort Myers.
The Peace children, Oscar and Lolita, sold the property in the late 1960s to Marie Louise Books Rector, who dreamed of creating a tropical restaurant amidst the lush gardens. In the early 1970s, she opened her restaurant and The Hut became a popular gathering spot for the better part of 30 years.
But as with so many such establishments, it eventually closed, the buildings and gardens forgotten and forlorn.
In the Summer of 2012, Buckingham LEGEND~resident and entrepreneur Tommy Lee Cook found himself dreaming about the property.
“I sat alone in the gardens,” he writes on the restaurant’s website, “and imagined the place restored, brought back to the splendor it deserved. I saw the people, the parties, the weddings and anniversaries, the fun and the life, swirling around me in my mesmerized trance. I had a new dream.”
hope they serv lunch and dinner
Are they opening back up as a restaurant again in the future?
Please, Please, Please, an upscale steak house! With a real wine list!
So happy it was finally sold.. loved going there! Only about 1 mile from HorseCreek!!
We really need a good restaurant there. That’s run by someone with a long history of running restaurants preferably upscale. There are none in Buckingham and with all the growth if they had someone that knew how to run a restaurant correctly they would definitely see business.
Try the new Italian restaurant on 80 at the verandah shopping center .