Lightning Warning Horn Saving Lives in Local Community
Babcock Ranch implements Thor Guard lightning detection systems for the safety of their students at Babcock Ranch School and our residents. This NBC2 news story explains.
Lee Health inking deal to become Babcock Ranch’s sole medical provider next year
Lee Health is negotiating a deal with Babcock Ranch that could make the public hospital system the sole medical provider in the burgeoning Southwest Florida development by next summer. Under the terms of the arrangement, Lee Health would begin opening a Lee Physician Group family practice clinic, a physical rehabilitation facility and a wellness center in […]
Babcock Ranch & Washington Post
We’re pleased to announce that our very own Syd Kitson, CEO of Kitson & Partners, the Developer for Babcock Ranch has been selected to speak and participate in an upcoming digital exposé through The Washington Post. The Washington Post features live videos and interviews by way of their “Washington Post Live” platform. In these intimate, […]
Miami is Home to Terrible Drivers. Here’s a Fix to Road Rage and No-Signal Turns.
The driverless-car revolution is coming to Manhattan streets in early 2018. Trials are running in Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Boston and San Francisco. But the ride of the future is not yet on the calendar for Miami, a city that needs autonomous vehicles more than any other to render its notoriously bad drivers obsolete. Hang in there, […]
Florida is leading the way to a driverless future
By Joe Rinzel, special to the Tampa Bay Times Published: November 16, 2017 There is a new city being developed in southeast Florida near Babcock Ranch where some 50,000 residents will have access to one of the first driverless taxi networks in the country. This is yet another example of how Florida is now an […]
Babcock Ranch setting a new standard for smart, sustainable growth
Solar-powered town garnering national, international attention Florida Weekly November 29, 2017 People across the nation are talking a lot about the need for responsible growth, sustainability and “smart cities.” But to find someone who is doing something about it – you have to travel to Southwest Florida. Babcock Ranch has been attracting national and international […]
Babcock Ranch Neighborhood School Takes Home 1st Place Prize for Solar Energy Cook-Off
We’re very proud of our students at the Babcock Neighborhood School! Our students took home the 1st place prize for the 6th Annual Solar Energy Cookoff. “The Annual Solar Energy Cook-Off Challenge brings students from grades K-12 together, working as teams to design, build and cook their original dish in their solar “cookers” demonstrating the […]
Self-Driving Cars Will Transform the World as We Know It—Including Where We Live
Babcock Ranch was recently featured in a story on Realtor.com about the future of real estate as autonomous vehicles make their way into the mainstream. Clare Trapasso, the senior news editor of realtor.com and an adjunct journalism professor, writes: Suburbanites who don’t live in a city can still get in on the autonomous, ride-sharing action. […]
Florida Lifestyle Homes introduces Sidney design at Babcock Ranch
Florida Lifestyle Homes has introduced the Sidney, a new custom home design nearing completion at Babcock Ranch, a new eco-centric town being developed in Charlotte County, east of Fort Myers off State Road 31. Located on the preserve in the Lake Timber neighborhood, the Sydney is close to the Lake House and Founder’s Square, the […]
Electric Slide: Buy Home, Get Car
Our builder, Florida Lifestyle Homes, was recently featured in BuilderOnline.com for their exciting new incentive: buy the Lauren model and get a choice of the Chevy Bolt or Volt. “When we started looking at the types of incentives we wanted to put together for Babcock Ranch we wanted to focus in on what the town […]
Calling all entrepreneurs: VenturePitch SWFL to be held at Babcock Ranch
Source: Naples Herald December 7, 2017 Entrepreneurs will compete for up to $50,000 of investment funding in a “Shark Tank” style competition held as part of 2018 VenturePitch at Babcock Ranch in April. Contestants have until February 15 to submit their application for the event where four finalists will be able to pitch their business […]
Babcock Ranch, the Solar Town, Ramps Up in 2018
Babcock Ranch was recently featured in the Fort Myers News-Press for what’s to come in 2018. “For Babcock Ranch, a solar-powered community in the works for more than a decade, 2017 turned out to be the year it visually became a town thanks to a restaurant, a school and a community gathering space. As 2018 […]
Babcock Ranch Featured on BBC Newsday
Babcock Ranch is making international headlines and was most recently featured on BBC Newsday. “A big moment in renewable energy for the United States: at the start of 2018, the town of Babcock Ranch in Southwest Florida will become the first community in America to be fully solar-powered.” Listen to the entire clip about Babcock Ranch below. […]
First Homeowners Move into Babcock Ranch Community
“Babcock Ranch, the nation’s first solar city–years in the making–is celebrating a major milestone.” We are very excited to announce that our first homeowners, Richard and Robin Kinley, moved into their new home on January 4, 2018! Take a look at recent story covered by WINK News about this historic day for Babcock Ranch. Click here […]
In Southwest Florida, Taking a Shine to the Nation’s First Solar-Powered Town
We were thrilled to have Diane Daniel on-site last December to write a piece to be featured in the Washington Post. “Along a dirt road leading into Florida’s past, I stopped to marvel at its future, or at least one vision of it. I was headed to Babcock Ranch Eco-Tours, where visitors pay to tour […]
Lee Health Gets Exclusive Babcock Ranch Medical Rights
Lee Health and Babcock Ranch have sealed a deal to give the public hospital system exclusive rights to perform medical services in the new, ecologically minded community northeast of Fort Myers. The deal, which the hospital system’s elected governing board approved Thursday, provides Lee Health these rights for the first five years and gives the […]
Babcock Ranch Featured on CBS This Morning
We’re excited to share that we were featured on CBS This Morning for our sustainability and solar efforts. Take a look at the clip featured below.
An ABC News Feature: Welcome to America’s First Solar-Powered Town
Our first residents, Richard and Robin Kinley, were the focus of a recent article from ABC News! “Richard and Robin Kinley are among the retirees who move to Florida every year. However, this couple gets to watch the sunset every night over a lake that’s named after them — Lake Kinley. The sustainable Babcock Ranch, […]
Is Florida’s Babcock Ranch the City of the Future?
The brainchild of former football star and developer Syd Kitson is getting attention as a potential model for forward-thinking cities. The city of the future will not be the cold metal domes or Mars settlements of science fiction movies. It will be a community of 19,500 homes surrounded by thousands of acres of green space […]
Richard and Robin Kinley are First Residents of 17,500-acre Master-Planned Community of Babcock Ranch
Our first residents, Richard and Robin Kinley, were featured in a story from the Herald Tribune. To the locals near Southwest Florida’s bays and beaches, Babcock Ranch seems “way out there” — 30 minutes southeast of downtown Punta Gorda and 20 northeast of Fort Myers. But young retirees Richard and Robin Kinley say it seems […]
