Gretchen Smith woke up Friday morning in Fort Myers, Florida, walked her sister's dog and gazed upon the aftermath of Hurricane Ian: downed trees, uprooted vegetation, debris from damaged homes and vehicles that had floated in the floodwaters into her single-story townhouse neighborhood. Smith, a director with Cushman & Wakefield Commercial Property Southwest Florida, was being asked to check on the properties her firm manages the day after the Category 4 storm, but that would have meant having to use her car. “They wanted me to drive around and look at properties, but I can't do that. There are no gas stations,” Smith told Bisnow during her walk. “I'm not wasting my gas on that. Sorry.” 
Cushman & Wakefield is among many owners and managers of real estate in southwest Florida assessing how their properties fared in one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the United States.But the extent of the damage wrought by the storm will take time to ascertain, as search…  Read the full story here. | 
