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
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.

 

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