Schroeder-Manatee chief talks to RCLCO

Rex Jensen discusses creation of Lakewood Ranch in consultant's "Great Minds of Real Estate" series

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 6:00 a.m. March 13, 2020
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COURTESY PHOTO — Rex Jensen is the president and CEO of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch, the master developer of the 31,000-acre Lakewood Ranch community in Sarasota and Manatee counties.
COURTESY PHOTO — Rex Jensen is the president and CEO of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch, the master developer of the 31,000-acre Lakewood Ranch community in Sarasota and Manatee counties.
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Even some of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch President and CEO Rex Jensen’s closest friends told him developing Lakewood Ranch was crazy when he joined the family-led development company in 1994.

“I still have the scars from all the people who told me we were insane,” Jensen tells consulting firm RCLCO in the latest installment of its online “Great Minds in Real Estate” interview series.

 

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