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Overhead view of an excavator and roller installing storm pipe at Meadow Springs Run

From Raw Land to Building Pad.

Finished homesites, delivered on time and at a pre-determined cost. Dedicated crews and iron to make it all happen.

100+

Acres Owned or Controlled (as of Q3 2026). Acres owned plus acres controlled under contract.

200+

Finished Lots Delivered / In Pipeline (as of Q3 2026). Finished homesites delivered to builders, plus lots in entitlement, development, or under contract.

80K+

SF Built & Under Construction (as of Q3 2026). Saleable square footage, vertical product only.

$55M

Gross Development Value (as of Q3 2026). Total gross development value, completed and under way.

$27M+

Assets Under Development (as of Q3 2026). Gross value of projects in development or lease-up, prior to stabilization.

2019

Building Since

* Figures as of Q3 2026. + Total gross development value, completed and under way.

The Firm

A privately held operator, vertically integrated from site to structure.

Dorado Capital develops finished homesites for production homebuilders across the mid-Atlantic. The firm executes site work through dedicated crews and affiliated contractors, controlling everything from raw land acquisition through final lot delivery, keeping schedules tight and costs controlled on every project.

Dorado's roots are in homebuilding. The firm has taken condominium and townhome communities from site acquisition through construction and retail sales in Washington, D.C. and Richmond. That experience taught it exactly what a production builder needs from a finished lot, and it shapes every homesite the firm delivers.

What We Do

Development, from the ground up.

The core of the business is taking raw ground through entitlement, engineering, and site construction to lots a homebuilder can start on. Alongside it, the firm maintains a selective vertical arm in for-sale and for-lease residential.

Dedicated crews and equipment installing utilities in winter at Meadow Springs Run

Where We Work

Rooted in the mid-Atlantic.

Our work concentrates today between Washington, D.C. and Richmond, submarkets where we have entitled, built, and delivered since 2019, with the crews, iron, and relationships to follow our builder partners across the region.

Dorado Capital projects across the mid-Atlantic 3Washington · 3 projects4Richmond · 4 projects
Dorado Capital projects across two metros. Washington, D.C.: The Seven, 2929Twelve, The Bowen. Richmond / Henrico County: Chestnut Flats, Orams Branch, York Manor, Meadow Springs Run.

Who We Serve

Builders, landowners, and capital partners.

Production Homebuilders

Finished, build-ready homesites: entitled, graded, and utility-served, delivered on schedule with one accountable counterparty from contract to closing.

For homebuilders

Landowners

A direct, discreet principal for ground with development potential, ready to buy, option, or partner, with straightforward terms, diligent entitlement work, and a counterparty that performs.

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Capital Partners

A small circle of private, long-term relationships, built over time. Each one begins with an introduction.

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How We Work

From dirt to disposition.

Every acquisition is underwritten against stressed assumptions: elevated rates, extended absorption, conservative exits. Each is structured with built-in optionality. Discipline that compounds across cycles, and a firm built to remain active through dislocation rather than retreat from it.

  1. Source
  2. Entitle
  3. Develop
  4. Deliver
Two excavators and a crew setting a concrete structure into a muddy excavation at dusk

For Homebuilders

Build with us.

Entitled, build-ready lots delivered on schedule.

Raw, wooded acreage before development at Orams Branch in Henrico County, Virginia

For Landowners

Monetize your asset.

A direct principal ready to buy, option, or partner on your land, with the ground knowledge and execution capacity to perform.

Aerial view of a Dorado land development site: graded earth, a new road, and sediment ponds carved from raw ground

For Capital Partners

Get to know us.

Relationships precede everything. A responsible steward with an operator’s command of land, construction, and capital markets.