Who we are
We plan the whole property
One team planning access, drainage, structures and landscape together — so North Georgia acreage gets built once, in the right order.
Most acreage problems aren't build problems — they're sequence problems. A driveway cut before anyone mapped where water moves. A barn sited where the grade fights it. A landscape installed over utilities that have to come back up. Every one of those is paid for twice.
John Franklin Land Group exists to keep that from happening. We plan the entire property first — access, water, building pads, barns, fencing, walls and finished landscape as one system — then we build it ourselves, in the order the land requires. One plan, one team, one point of accountability from the first walk to the last load of gravel.
Planned before it's priced
You see the whole property drawn — access, drainage, structures, landscape — before equipment shows up. Changes happen on paper, where they're free.
Water solved first
We follow how water moves the property and fix it at the source. Grade and drainage come before anything visible, because that's what makes the visible work last.
One team, start to finish
Site work, structures and landscape stay under one roof. No coordinating three contractors who each blame the last one.
Built in phases that hold
Build it over seasons or years if you want — sequenced so nothing done in year one has to be torn out in year four.
Serving landowners north of Atlanta — Cumming, Milton, Alpharetta, Roswell, Johns Creek, Buckhead, Sandy Springs, Marietta, East Cobb, Woodstock, Canton and Ball Ground — and up through Jasper, Dawsonville, Ellijay and Blue Ridge. Fulton, Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth, Pickens, Dawson, Lumpkin, Hall, Gilmer and Fannin counties.
Ownership
Jena Kranz — Founder & CEO
Jena is the vision behind John Franklin Land Group. A lifelong lover of the outdoors with a builder's eye for construction, she founded the company around intentional, thoughtful design — properties shaped to the land they sit on, under the big blue Georgia sky.
She leads the planning side of every project: reading the property, setting the sequence, and making sure what gets drawn is what actually gets built.
Ryan Kranz — Chief Operating Officer
Ryan runs the field. Crews, equipment, schedules and the grade under everything — he's the reason a plan on paper turns into finished work that holds up. Together, Jena and Ryan have built John Franklin Land Group in North Georgia with heart, soul and a standard they hold every project to personally.
How we work
Read the land first
Before a single number goes on a proposal, we walk the property and follow the water. Topography, soils and drainage decide what's possible; everything else is preference.
One plan, phased over time
You don't have to build it all at once. You do have to build it in the right order. We sequence work so year one never has to be torn out in year four.
Infrastructure before finish
Base, grade and drainage are what make the visible work last. We'd rather spend your budget under the surface than replace what's on top of it.
One team, one accountability
Planning, site work, structures and landscape stay under one roof — so there's nobody to point at when the grade and the patio don't agree.