Most condo renovations on Marco Island happen as a chain of separate trades — a flooring crew this month, a painter the next, a kitchen installer whenever the cabinets land. At The Sandcastle, we’re running the opposite play: one residence at 720 S Collier Blvd, taken through kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, paint, and full interior finish as a single coordinated project with one schedule and one fixed number.

Island work adds its own layer — elevator reservations, association work-hour rules, materials staged and sequenced so the unit never sits idle waiting on a back-order. Twenty years of property management and 500+ Southwest Florida remodels means the process is engineered before the first trade walks in, and the same discipline we run across twelve units at Eden House scales down cleanly to one.

The Sandcastle towers — Sandcastle I (1982) and Sandcastle II (1983) — stand sixteen stories over the south end of Marco Island’s crescent beach, with glass elevators, some of the largest wrap-around lanais on the island, and floor plans from 863 to nearly 2,000 square feet. Forty years on, the buildings hold one of the best beachfront positions in Southwest Florida — and beachfront position is the one thing no renovation budget can buy.

The numbers tell the investment story. Fully renovated Sandcastle residences are listing in the $729,000–$790,000 range even at the one-bedroom, 863-square-foot end — north of $840 per square foot — while original-condition units in the same stack, with the same view and the same beach, trade well below that. On a 1983 building, the land and the view are fixed; the interior is the only variable. A whole-house renovation is what moves a Sandcastle unit from dated-1980s pricing to the top of the island’s per-square-foot market — which is exactly why our client is doing it.

Full kitchen rebuild with cabinetry from our 4,000 SF Bonita Springs warehouse, stone counters, and new appliances. Both bathrooms taken to complete wet rooms — tiled walk-in showers, new vanities, and full waterproofing behind every wall. New flooring throughout, moisture-rated for beachfront living and laid tight over prepped slabs.

Interior paint on every surface, new doors and trim, updated fixtures and lighting room by room — and the punch-list discipline that turns a construction site back into a finished beachfront home. Photos update above as rooms finish.