Barb and Pete Martinez of Estero chug past hundreds of rental cars now stored around the Hertz Arena off Ben Hill Griffin Parkway in Estero. Naples businessman David Hoffmann and the Hoffmann Family of Cos., which bought the Everblades hockey team and the Hertz Arena in August, agreed to allow Hertz to store its idle rental cars on the arena grounds a few weeks ago. It's yet another sign of the devastating blow the tourism industry has taken from the pandemic locally, nationally and globally, due to travel bans and other restrictions designed to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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