Track: Public Access and the Internet
Economic Development and the Internet...Small Town America Goes Global!
Jim ReedDateline...July 20, 1996. Money magazine names the City of Punta Gorda (population 12,531) as the "Best Small Town in America." With this announcement, one of America's best kept secrets was out, and the ensuing interest in this small Gulf Coast community by entrepreneurs, business leaders, and real estate investors was eye opening. The demand for demographic and cartographic information about the economic development opportunities in Punta Gorda was near overwhelming. Enter a solution tailor made for a local government with limited financial and staff resources...an Internet-based geographic information system aimed at promoting economic development in Punta Gorda.
Jim Reed
City of Punta Gorda
326 West Marion Ave
Punta Gorda, FL 33950
USA
Telephone: (941) 575-3385
Fax: (941) 575-3347
E-mail: jareed2@aol.com