Viera East residents fighting frustration [South Florida]
To Art and Merle Gelles, their Collingtree neighborhood is as close as you can get to paradise on Earth.
They live off the second hole of the Viera East Golf Club and play about four times a week.
“It’s so beautiful I feel like I’m on vacation continuously,” Merle Gelles said minutes before teeing off on a recent morning.
But life isn’t all putting greens and fairways here at Viera East, where about 8,000 people live surrounding an 18-hole golf course on almost 3,000 acres east of Interstate 95 between Wickham Road and Barnes Boulevard.