Metro Development Group

About Metro Development Group

Metro Development Group (MDG) is the Southeast’s largest privately held residential real estate developer. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Tampa, MDG specializes in master-planned community land development across Florida, partnering with more than 30 award-winning national and regional homebuilders — including Lennar, D.R. Horton, KB Home, Pulte, and Dream Finders — to bring master-planned communities from raw land to move-in-ready. MDG has developed 100,000+ residential lots, 5,000+ multi-family units, and 35 million square feet of commercial space across 70+ completed communities. That scale reflects two decades of taking raw land and building the full ecosystems around it — the homes, the amenities, the infrastructure, and the retail — required to create communities where residents can live and thrive. MDG is best known for pioneering the man-made lagoon amenity in the United States. In 2019, MDG opened the first lagoon in the U.S. at its Epperson community in Wesley Chapel, and later developed the largest man-made lagoon in the country at Mirada. Additional active MetroLagoon™ communities include Southshore Bay, Brightwater, and Seaire. Future MetroLagoons are planned for Sandal Key, Angeline, and Diamond Springs. Beyond its lagoon-community identity, MDG is defined by a family of signature innovations that distinguish its communities from traditional residential development: ULTRAFi™ gigabit smart-community internet, and Streetleaf™ solar street lighting.