Plan for success and maximize your returns.
Fields to Fortune gives developers, homebuilders, and land professionals a practical framework for planning the capital, entitlement, and infrastructure finance strategy behind successful master-planned communities.
About the Book
Fields to Fortune is the first book in the Land to Lots™ Trilogy. It focuses on the planning process behind successful development finance, helping teams understand how to prepare a project before pursuing capital, bond financing, or reimbursement strategies.
Through The Launch Sequence®, Carter Froelich outlines how developers can think through entitlement strategy, infrastructure obligations, cost exposure, capital requirements, and timing before a project reaches the most expensive phases of execution.
What Readers Will Learn
The book is designed for developers, homebuilders, landowners, capital partners, and project teams evaluating how infrastructure obligations, public finance tools, district strategy, and capital timing can influence project returns before the development plan is locked.
Understand how capital needs, timing, and financing options influence project feasibility from the earliest planning stages.
Learn why entitlements, infrastructure obligations, and public approvals must be aligned with the project’s financial strategy.
See how a structured planning process can help reduce risk, improve clarity, and create a stronger foundation for execution.
Carter Froelich is the Founder and Managing Principal of Launch Development Finance Advisors. With more than 40 years of experience in real estate development, he has been formulating and implementing land-secured financing solutions for master-planned communities and residential development projects across the country.
Through Land to Lots™, Carter shares a practical framework for approaching infrastructure finance with greater clarity, discipline, and strategic intent.
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