I was staying at the Villas at SBR and did see some activity at both Royal Palm and Flamingo nov3 to nov17. The activity was not very active I saw 3 or 4 workers at each location my last week and heard some hammering. At the RP I saw someone cleaning the pool which for some reason is full and several others doing landscaping. There were more workers at SBR expanding the beach bar and finishing the roofing of la Patrona restaurant along with the slate flooring in the marina area. I wonder how a resort that is up and running at almost full capacity has more construction workers than both those closed resorts combined.
I walked the beaches of each resort a half dozen times and snorkeled RP entire beach and went halfway to the bridge and very limited activity. I also snorkeled Flamingo beach around the rocks.