When an Aug. 11 Fast Company story was published comparing the housing bubble burst after prices peaked in 2006 to today’s falling home prices in Punta Gorda, local Realtors and an analyst took notice ...

It says something about Punta Gorda’s commitment to its historic building stock that the vintage courthouse is still standing. It was built in 1928, seven years after Charlotte County was formed in ...

Punta Gorda is home to the Charlotte County campus of Edison State College, which has four campuses in southwest Florida. There are many historic places in Punta Gorda, including ten places on the ...

You don’t have to look far to find places where Florida’s resort economy has been built upon once-gritty industrial sites. Fishermen’s Village, a half-mile west of downtown Punta Gorda, is an example.