Master-planned community has eye on more growth, opportunities ahead

Lakewood Ranch, in Manatee and Sarasota counties, is expanding by increasing its land area.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:10 a.m. April 26, 2019
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File. Rex Jensen, president and CEO of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch, says part of Lakewood Ranch’s appeal to homebuyers is the master-planned community’s active, engaging lifestyle. Â
File. Rex Jensen, president and CEO of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch, says part of Lakewood Ranch’s appeal to homebuyers is the master-planned community’s active, engaging lifestyle. Â
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It’s going to happen.

That’s a key tenet of Rex Jensen’s philosophy on growth. And he knows a thing or two about the topic. He’s the president and CEO of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch Inc., the parent company of Lakewood Ranch, a 31,000-acre master-planned community with 36,000 residents and dozens of businesses in Manatee and Sarasota counties.

 

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