Light the Way

Most people know Allegiant for its low-cost airfare. Now the Las Vegas-based company is getting into new territory with its planned Sunseeker Resort development in Port Charlotte.

Punta Gorda Airport in Charlotte County is an Allegiant flight destination —one of the reasons it chose the area for the project. “It's a great place to launch the Sunseeker brand,” Allegiant Travel Co. President John Redmond says in a December interview with the Business Observer.

The resort, as currently planned, will include a hotel and up to nine condominium towers on 20 acres. Restaurants, bars and stores are also planned to fill out the waterfront development. “We never set out to just build a condo tower,” Redmond says.