Lakewood Ranch executive earns Builder magazine 'Legend' award

With the announcement on Friday that he is being honored by Builder magazine with its "Legend Award," Schroeder-Manatee Ranch CEO and President Rex Jensen says the award needs to go to Lakewood Ranch.

"This is a prestigious award," Jensen said Friday from the company's headquarters in Lakewood Ranch. "But I view it as going to the community. It shows that people are noticing, and it indicates the brand is what I thought it is. There is a fine line between hallucination and this."

It certainly has not been a hallucination that Lakewood Ranch has been the No. 1 selling, master-planned, multigenerational community in the country for the past five years, and the first half of 2023.