Colorado Growth 1 is a Walton Global land-banking offering acquiring ~70.5 acres of undeveloped agricultural land in unincorporated Adams County, in the north-Denver path of growth toward Thornton, all-cash within a $6.47M all-equity raise. The land is unzoned and unentitled; the business plan holds for appreciation and, after a minimum 12-month hold, markets it to a national homebuilder via a single-buyer staged sale over a ~4-5 year hold. The vehicle generates no current income, makes no interim distributions, and carries no debt, master lease, or 721 exit, with the entire return realized on disposition and subject to entitlement, zoning, wetlands, and absorption risk.
5 acres of undeveloped agricultural land at the northwest corner of State Highway 7 and Holly Street in unincorporated Adams County, Colorado, in the path of growth toward the City of Thornton in the north Denver metro. The Trust acquires the land all-cash/free-and-clear for ~$4,500,000 within a $6,469,972 all-equity raise (inclusive of syndication costs, a sponsor acquisition fee, a prepaid asset-management fee, trust expenses, and reserves). The Property is not presently zoned or entitled; the business plan is to hold the raw land for appreciation and, after a minimum 12-month hold post-final-closing, market it for sale to a national homebuilder or developer via a single-buyer staged sale (up to two installments) over an anticipated ~4-5 year hold.
The Trust generates no rental revenue and makes no distributions to investors until the land is sold - the entire return is appreciation realized on disposition. There is no debt, no master lease, no current income, and no 721/UPREIT exit; the bare legal title is held by the Administrative Trustee (Holly Ridge Keeper, LLC) and the Dealer Manager is ARKap Markets, LLC. Adams County/north Denver is a high-growth corridor, but the investment carries entitlement, zoning, wetlands, and absorption risk, with no assurance the exit is achieved.
The properties are held free and clear with no mortgage, eliminating refinancing, maturity, rate-cap, and lender-foreclosure risk and removing the equal-or-greater-debt replacement requirement for 1031 investors. The structural trade-off is the absence of positive leverage.
This is a pure land-banking appreciation play: the Trust acquires raw agricultural land for ~$4.5M with the sole objective of realizing appreciation on a future sale to a homebuilder or developer. There is no current income, so the return is binary on the eventual disposition price and timing rather than on contractual cash flow.
The ~70.5-acre parcel sits in a path-of-growth location at SH-7 and Holly Street in unincorporated Adams County, in the growth corridor of the City of Thornton in the north Denver metro, a market with population and housing demand that underpins the land-appreciation thesis.
The land is acquired debt-free and all-cash with no mortgage, eliminating refinancing, maturity, and foreclosure risk and removing carry-cost leverage. The offsetting feature is that, with no income, reserves and a prepaid asset-management fee are funded upfront from offering proceeds to cover a multi-year hold.
Entitlement and zoning are unresolved: the Property is not presently zoned or entitled for development, future entitlements would follow City of Thornton zoning upon annexation (per the Otten Johnson entitlement memo), and the National Wetlands Inventory flags potential wetlands. Both are gating items to a developer sale and represent the central execution risk.
The exit is a staged sale over an anticipated ~4-5 year hold: after a minimum 12-month hold the Trust intends a single-buyer staged sale of up to two installments. If no third-party developer is willing or able to buy on the intended terms, the land may be sold on commercially reasonable terms or to an affiliate of the Administrative Trustee, a conflict-of-interest and pricing risk.
A debt-free, all-cash land-banking DST offering exposure to ~70.5 acres of undeveloped land in the high-growth north Denver/Adams County corridor (path of growth toward Thornton), sponsored by Walton Global Holdings, an established land-investment platform. The unlevered structure removes refinancing, maturity, and foreclosure risk, and the comparatively low ~$4.5M land basis against a growing residential market underpins the appreciation thesis. The offering provides 1031-eligible like-kind real property with a defined business plan (hold, then staged sale to a homebuilder/developer over ~4-5 years) and a clean capital structure with reserves funded upfront to carry the hold.
The Property is raw, unentitled agricultural land that generates no income and pays no distributions until sale, so the entire return depends on achieving a future disposition at an appreciated price, with no current yield to cushion a delayed or failed exit. Entitlement and zoning are unresolved (the land is not presently zoned; entitlements depend on annexation to the City of Thornton), and the National Wetlands Inventory flags potential wetlands, either of which could impair developability and the sale. The exit is concentrated in a single anticipated buyer type over a staged sale, with a fallback permitting sale to an affiliate of the Administrative Trustee, a conflict and pricing risk. The offering is small ($6.47M) and single-asset, the load is high (~14.98% of equity, before a further 5.56% prepaid asset-management fee and a disposition fee), and only ~69.55% of proceeds funds the land basis. Hold duration is uncertain (anticipated 4-5 years, but the asset-management agreement runs 10 years), exposing investors to absorption timing and Denver land-market cyclicality.
The analysis below is Baker 1031's educational opinion — not investment, tax, or legal advice, a recommendation, or a guarantee, and it does not replace the offering's Private Placement Memorandum (PPM), which governs in all respects. Read the PPM and consult your own CPA and attorney before investing.
Colorado Growth 1 - Holly Ridge is structurally unlike an income-producing net-lease or multifamily DST: it is a speculative, unlevered land-banking vehicle whose return is entirely appreciation realized on a future sale of ~70.5 acres of unentitled Denver-metro land, with no rental income, no distributions during the hold, no master lease, and no 721/UPREIT exit. The thesis rests on north Adams County's growth trajectory and the land's eventual entitlement and absorption by a homebuilder/developer, so the dominant sensitivities are entitlement/zoning success (annexation to Thornton, wetlands resolution), the depth of homebuilder lot demand and pricing at exit, and the timing of the staged sale within the anticipated 4-5 year hold. The debt-free structure removes financing risk but offers no income to offset a delayed exit, and the upfront load (~14.98%) plus a prepaid 5.56% asset-management fee and reserves mean a meaningful portion of equity is consumed by fees and carry rather than land basis. Underwriting feasibility cannot be assessed on contractual cash flow as with the other ledger holdings; it is a binary, appreciation-only, opportunistic bet on Denver-corridor land values and entitlement execution, with an affiliate-sale fallback that warrants scrutiny. This is the first non-income, opportunistic land position in the portfolio and is not comparable to the income-distributing DSTs on the sheet.
The analysis below is Baker 1031's educational opinion — not investment, tax, or legal advice, a recommendation, or a guarantee, and it does not replace the offering's Private Placement Memorandum (PPM), which governs in all respects. Read the PPM and consult your own CPA and attorney before investing.
Walton Global Holdings
Walton Global Holdings is a land asset manager with a 45-plus-year history, managing $3.35 billion and specializing in pre-development land that it supplies to U.S. homebuilders—a genuinely distinctive 1031 asset class. Controlling more than 85,000 acres across 170-plus master-planned communities and serving some 88,000 global investors across 91 countries, Walton has institutionalized land banking through its Builder Land Finance structure, recently bolstered by a 2025 GoldenTree co-investment. The land-to-homebuilder model offers diversification from income real estate but carries entitlement and absorption risk distinct from cash-flowing assets.
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