Description: Lakewood Ranch is an award-winning master-planned community unlike anywhere else. Learn more about us here.
Our annual community magazine is a great place to discover what we’re all about and what makes Lakewood Ranch America’s favorite place to call home.
Lakewood Ranch has kept the promise to protect the land we were entrusted with and take care of the people who live, work and play here. Over 100 years later, through generations of careful planning and dedicated building, that same family is still guiding the community. Schroeder-Manatee Ranch, our parent company, has guided and supported those efforts.
Schroeder-Manatee Ranch (SMR) is the parent company of Lakewood Ranch, a 33,000+ acre master-planned community located in Manatee and Sarasota Counties in Southwest Florida. Since the early 1900s, the Uihlein family, one of the original owners of the Schlitz Brewery, has owned the property. Ranch activities have included cattle ranching and citrus, tree and turf farming, and aggregate mining.