Lehigh Acres, located south of Sarasota County, was ranked No. 3 in a list of the country's fastest-growing cities compiled by the finance website WalletHub. WalletHub compared 515 U.S. cities of varying population sizes based on 14 key indicators of economic growth, including population growth, decrease in unemployment rate and growth in GDP per capita. Between 2009 and 2015, Lehigh Acres experienced the highest population growth, 8.4 percent, out of all the cities analyzed by WalletHub. Fort Myers earned the No. 14 spot in the ranking.

Lehigh Acres is located about an hour south of North Port, a region that is currently experiencing a construction boom. Click here to read a current 941CEO feature on the explosion of south county development.