“He later bought out that owner of the Western Auto parts store and then ended up turning it into Sunshine Hardware, and that’s where Sunshine Hardware was born originally on Fifth Avenue.” “That original location for the grocery store on Fifth Avenue was rented out to a Western Auto parts store,” Michael Wynn said. In 1953, 50 feet east of the original market on Fifth Avenue, founder Don Wynn built a second market, doubling its size with a parking lot between the stores. Grandfather came back from World War II, bought the business with a GI loan of $2,000, and then we located in the mid-’40s to Fifth Avenue.” “The family history in Florida goes back to the 1880s in Bradford County, just outside of Gainesville, then Plant City and then to Naples in 1938,” Wynn said “Just down by the City Dock, they bought a little inn and grocery store. Wynn’s Market began as Sunshine Super Market in 1948 where Yabba Island Grill is today on Fifth Avenue South and what then was the corner of Seventh Avenue South. The Wynn family has had stores in the Naples area for 75 of Collier County’s 100 years. 41 in downtown Naples and the other stores in Collier, the company also has hardware stores in Lee, Charlotte and Pinellas counties. In addition to the Benjamin Moore paint store on U.S. “We have 13 locations, which includes our dedicated commercial paint store.” “It’s the 12th hardware store overall,” Wynn said. The new hardware store is the fifth in Collier County for the Wynns, which also have stores in downtown Naples, East Naples, Golden Gate and Marco Island. “Collier County’s residential and commercial growth is heading east of I-75, and we look forward to welcoming all the contractors, business owners and homeowners who no longer have to drive into town to buy a can of paint, tools or a new grill,” said Sunshine Ace Hardware President Michael Wynn, grandson of the late Don Wynn. Sunshine Ace Hardware is the first business and the anchor of The Plaza at Founders Square, a retail strip at 8850 Founders Square Drive in the center of the mixed-use development on that busy corner. The latest one celebrated its opening Saturday, April 22, in Founders Square on the southeast corner of Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard in Collier County. Those aspects are apparent with the Wynn family’s launch this month of its 12th hardware store. Since Naples entrepreneur Don Wynn launched Sunshine Hardware in downtown Naples in 1958, the local family business has grown into a network of stores built around a variety of quality goods serviced by a friendly staff.

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