Fast-growing city's mayor's death leaves leadership gap

Commercial real estate developer and investor Dan Creighton says he’s done projects in 100 some counties and municipalities across 11 states. And few civic leaders in those areas impressed him as much as the one in his backyard did: Cape Coral Mayor Joe Coviello.

“He always told his team he didn’t want to hear all the reasons why a project couldn’t work,” says Creighton, founder and partner of Creighton Construction & Development. “He wanted to hear why it could work and how the city was going to make that happen.”