Manatee County builder wows buyers with solar-powered community
Key takeaway: Hunters Point in Manatee County, from Pearl Homes, is a new LEED Zero community, meaning the homes generate more power than is consumed. Core challenge: Pearl Homes' Marshall Gobuty wasn't expecting residents to want to learn everything about how the homes work, so he had to find a biologist who could explain the science behind the concept. What's next: Affordable housing and sustainability should have no connection, Gobuty believes, which is why he's planning to build 720 single f