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Lakewood Ranch builder John Cannon a master of tree forts to mansions

On a tour of the Korina model in the Lake Club, I was walking with the man himself, Lakewood Ranch builder John Cannon, when we started talking about what got him started in the industry.

So I asked Cannon, a self-proclaimed control freak, about the first home he built on his own.

He thought back to 1990 when the new Misty Creek neighborhood, east of Interstate 75 in Sarasota County, was struggling...

Thank you LWR/SMR for the mention in the "A conversation with John Clarke":

When the housing market started perking up in 1993, SMR had already lined up its first builders.

“We wanted to get local builders we’d seen. We had some wonderful local builders here that took much more quality control measures than some of the national builders,” Clarke said, citing Lee Wetherington and John Cannon among them. “I think one of the great successes has been the...

John Cannon still enjoys working with clients to build custom homes

John Cannon collects cannons. But not by design. The cannons come from custom-home clients in appreciation for the detailed service ahead of construction, the finished product and the followup.

His Lakewood Ranch office is a bit of a shrine to the cannon.

The co-founder of John Cannon Homes attends client meetings, reviews wish lists, marks up house plans and visits job sites while homes...

Increase in attendance creates optimism for future sales

The 2018 edition of the Parade of Homes of Manatee & Sarasota Counties concluded Sunday with builders beaming about the number of home shoppers it attracted.
“We were real happy,” John Cannon said. His luxury custom home building company, John Cannon Homes, racked up an increase in traffic with more than 2,100 visits to his models, with each group or individual tour counted as one visit. “We enjoyed a very successful...