A masterplanned community in Punta Gorda, Florida is already famous for being America’s first solar powered town and surviving a direct hit from Hurricane Ian unscathed. Now it plans to be an innovation hub for climate change solutions.
Developed as a sustainable and “hurricane resistant” town by former professional football player Syd Kitson and Kitson & Partners in 2006, Babcock Ranch currently has approximately 15,000 residents.
With the residential plan spread out over 18,000 acres, the rest of the 91,000-acre tract of land formerly owned by Pittsburgh lumber magnate Edward Vose Babcock is preserved for nature conservation…