Martin Lind is a Windsor, Colorado developer, Water Valley Company principal, Colorado Eagles owner, and documented private-side actor in Greeley's Catalyst / Cascadia public-private project. The current repo record is strongest on official Greeley project documents, company and team biographies, district board pages, TRACER / Greeley municipal finance records, and a recovered Weld County District Court order in the Cascadia dispute.
This page deliberately avoids a generalized "developer power" or corruption frame. It separates what the record shows: private development role, fee-developer role, Eagles ownership, special-district board service, donor / issue-committee activity, and disputed public-process claims.
Company and Colorado Eagles official pages describe Lind as a fourth-generation farmer in the Windsor area who worked in agriculture and oil-and-gas before becoming a land developer. The Eagles page says he became a land developer in 1985; Water Valley's company history says Trollco Inc. was founded in Windsor by Martin and Viki Lind and later renamed The Water Valley Company. These are official self-description sources, not independent biography.
The same official biographies describe Lind's development focus around Water Valley, Pelican Lakes, RainDance, Eagle Crossing, Windsor Iron Mountain Autoplex, The Brands at the Ranch, and Westlake Mall in Greeley. Project-level municipal, assessor, and entitlement records have not yet been recovered for each project, so those items remain portfolio claims or project leads unless separately cited.
Trollco, Inc. d/b/a The Water Valley Company: Greeley records identify this as the fee developer in the April 2025 Pre-development Services Agreement for Catalyst. The PDSA represents Trollco as a Colorado corporation in good standing, but the Colorado SOS filing history was not extracted in this pass.The Water Valley Company: Lind appears as president in the July 2024 Greeley MOU and is described by official project pages as CEO / principal. The company is the private-side developer of Cascadia and the project-facing counterparty for the West Greeley project.VIMA Partners, LLC: The PDSA identifies VIMA as a Water Valley affiliate and owner or contract owner of West Greeley project property, including the Oxy Property transfer path to the city. A Colorado water-court resume also links VIMA to RainDance Reservoir No. 2 lease arrangements.Soaring Sports Group, LLC: Greeley's official project page describes this entity as owner of the Colorado Eagles and anchor-tenant party in the September 2025 long-term agreement.Larimer County Sports: The PDSA's indicative Eagles lease terms use this entity name in the Eagles lease context.These entities should not all become durable wiki entity pages until they show repeated independent importance beyond one agreement or one project stage. The current crosswalk is maintained in outputs/reports/martin-lind-project-and-vehicle-matrix-2026-04-15.md.
The strongest project record in this pass is Greeley's Catalyst / Cascadia project. Official company and team biographies also identify:
These are not all equally documented. RainDance now has direct Windsor Planning Commission support for the 2019 Fifth Filing, with Martin Lind of Raindance Land Company, LLC named as owner / applicant, plus Town Board support for the broader RainDance PUD history and Twelfth Filing scale. Eagle Crossing, The Brands, and Westlake Mall remain high-priority project leads for a later entitlement / recorder / municipal-record pass.
The Colorado Eagles official front-office page lists Martin Lind as Owner / CEO and says he is sole owner of the American Hockey League-affiliated Colorado Eagles. Greeley's April 2025 PDSA recitals state that Trollco, Inc. d/b/a The Water Valley Company owns the Colorado Eagles through an affiliate entity and is seeking a new home ice arena for the team. Greeley's September 2025 project update says the city reached a long-term agreement with Soaring Sports Group, LLC, owners of the Colorado Eagles, as anchor tenant for the new arena.
The Eagles role is central to Cascadia / Catalyst because the PDSA required the fee developer to cause the Eagles to enter a long-term lease with the city and necessary parties. The team should be treated as an operating sports asset and anchor tenant, not as a general proxy for every Lind real-estate vehicle.
The Poudre Tech / Water Valley district transparency site lists Lind as president of Poudre Tech Metropolitan District and Water Valley Metropolitan District No. 2. It also shows Austin Lind as assistant secretary on Water Valley Metropolitan District No. 1. This supports district board service, not company ownership.
The official Water Division 1 resume for case 21CW3150 documents Trollco, Raindance Aquatic Investments, RainDance Metropolitan District No. 1, Poudre Tech, VIMA, and multiple Lind / RainDance land vehicles in RainDance Reservoir and integrated-water-system work. It reports more than $43,000,000 in work toward the water-rights and integrated system during the diligence period.
The current pass did not extract district budgets, audits, mill levies, bond statements, or full service-plan histories. Detailed district-finance claims should remain deferred.
The public-private trail for Catalyst / Cascadia is now documentable:
2024: Greeley and The Water Valley Company entered an MOU with one-year exclusive negotiation rights and task lists for city, Water Valley, and joint work.2024: Greeley held a West Greeley work session around an Eagles arena, youth hockey center, water park, hotel / convention center, Cascadia Falls, intermodal hub, and district finance model.2025: Council approved the PDSA with Trollco / Water Valley as fee developer. The PDSA tied Catalyst viability to surrounding Cascadia development, Water Valley affiliate property control, Oxy Property transfer through VIMA, Eagles lease terms, PIFs, GID participation, business incentives, and fee-developer compensation.2025: Council approved Ordinance No. 15, 2025 authorizing up to $115,000,000 in COP financing for pre-development costs.2026: voters repealed Ordinance 30, 2025, overturning the Cascadia PUD zoning ordinance. The city stated Catalyst remained within city authority while Cascadia reverted to H-A zoning and paused pending Water Valley re-initiation.No Martin Lind candidate committee was identified in this pass. The documented finance layer is donor / issue-committee activity.
TRACER bulk records recovered Martin Lind contributions to Larimer County Republican Party, Weinberg for Colorado, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Dawn Downs, Woog for House District 19, Reams for Commissioner, and Victor Marx for Governor, along with Viki / Austin / Krystal Lind rows that should remain separately attributed.
The TRACER extract includes amended and offset rows, so it should not be used as a net-donation table without reconciling those fields.
Greeley municipal filings add a project-specific issue-committee layer. Greeley Forward registered to oppose petitions on Ordinance 15 and Ordinance 30 and support the West Greeley Project. Its October 2025 report shows $30,000 from Trollco, Inc.. That is a business / issue-committee record, not a personal candidate contribution.
The strongest litigation item in this pass is Martin Lind v. Greeley Deserves Better, Weld County District Court Case No. 2025CV30994. A recovered court-order copy filed 2026-02-09 granted Greeley Deserves Better's motion to dismiss Lind's defamation suit and awarded fees under the anti-SLAPP statute.
The order is important because it documents specific contested-process facts without adopting every opposition characterization. It states that the court interpreted a challenged "collusion" statement as referring to Lind working behind the scenes with city officials to support Catalyst and prevent the proposed ballot measure from reaching the ballot, while also stating the article did not accuse Lind of illegal conduct and recording Lind's denial of secret conspiracy or unlawful conduct.
The order lists several items as undisputed or not denied: an Epic Waters trip with city staff and council members, Lind sharing the Greeley Forward website and links with city employees on 2025-07-14, mid-August messages to two U.S. representatives about a campaign firm, and Trollco's $30,000 Greeley Forward contributions.
The record supports specific actions and roles. It should not be compressed into a vague statement that these three were "behind" the project.