This is not theory. It is the system behind completed deals.
Every framework, calculator, and contract in the program comes from real development projects that were sourced, entitled, built, and sold — not from a textbook.
Andrew Wallace
Andrew has spent his career taking raw and underused land through entitlement, horizontal development, and vertical construction across the Maryland, DC, and Virginia market. Every project taught in this program is his own completed work — the numbers in the Deal Labs are the numbers those deals actually produced.
The teaching philosophy is simple: learn it the way it is actually practiced, deal by deal and tool by tool. That is why the program hands you the real toolkit and walks the same projects an active developer runs, instead of abstract case studies.
You are not learning from someone who read about development. Apply the method to a real parcel of your own, and by the end you will have a deal you could actually pitch.
Six real projects you study across the program.
Each one anchors the Deal Labs — the concept shown on an actual project, with the actual figures.
The Ponds
A 71-home community in three phases: about $37.3M gross revenue, $13.8M net profit, roughly a 65% return on cost, with $1.5M of profit recycled into later phases.
College Grove Townes
A 17-unit build-to-rent income project: about 18.6% unlevered IRR rising to 28.6% levered, at a 2.43× equity multiple.
Chestnut Grove Estates
A single-family lot program run on a flat-rate, joint-draw builder model, with a lot-reservation strategy that locked demand using certified deposits.
Maple Street Parcel
Three acres taken to six finished lots — $248,050 of residual land value per lot against a $45,000 per-lot horizontal budget. The beginner case, and the model for the capstone.
Maple Street Commons
A small mixed-use block: NOI build-up, cap-rate valuation, and the parking economics that decide whether the deal works.
118-Unit Redevelopment
An advanced income deal carrying about $2.35M of NOI to a roughly $47M exit value — the anchor case of the Mastery Track.
You learn the six-step method, the tools, and the numbers behind finished deals.
Groundbreaker Academy is the education arm of Chestnut Bridge Partners, created to help the next generation of developers turn raw dirt into real wealth.