We Moved Al Capone's Hideout!

Christian Busk is the founder and principal of Busk & Associates, serving as a visionary landscape architect who has spent over 40 years shaping the aesthetic of Naples. 

In Part 1 of our interview, he shares incredible stories of physically moving historic homes to save them from demolition, designing the city's first vanishing-edge pool, and his mission to preserve and elevate the natural beauty of Southwest Florida.

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0:00 - Designing Naples: Moving away from the basic pool catalog
06:30 - The crazy logistics of moving historic Naples houses on skids
12:15 - Saving the "Al Capone" hideout and restoring its original beauty
18:40 - Creating a 6-acre Asian-inspired estate on the beach
24:10 - The evolution of Florida landscaping & the first vanishing edge pool
30:20 - Designing the medians and making Highway 41 beautiful

In this episode, we sit down with landscape architecture pioneer Christian Busk to discuss the early days of Naples development and his legendary residential and public projects.

Key Takeaways:
- How Christian physically moved entire historic structures—including the rumored Al Capone hideout and the Williams Packard house—to save them from destruction.
- The intricate process behind creating some of Naples' most iconic residential landscapes, including a massive 6-acre Asian-inspired estate featuring a 250-foot waterfall and 850-foot cobblestone driveway.
- The evolution of landscape architecture in Southwest Florida, from introducing the first vanishing-edge pool on the Marco River to redesigning the medians of Highway 41.

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