The initial Martin Lind pass establishes a documentable profile of Lind as a Windsor-based developer, Water Valley Company principal, Colorado Eagles owner, special-district board officer, donor, and private-side actor in Greeley's Catalyst / Cascadia project. The strongest evidence is official: Greeley council packets and agreements, Greeley project pages, TRACER and municipal finance filings, district transparency pages, and a Colorado water-court resume. Company and team biographies add useful chronology and portfolio claims, but remain self-description unless corroborated.
The Cascadia / Catalyst record does not support a vague statement that Martin Lind, John Gates, and Raymond Lee were "behind" the plan. It does support a more precise role map: Lind and The Water Valley Company were the private developer / fee-developer and Eagles-side actor; Gates was the mayor and public elected supporter documented in votes, resolutions, and public statements; Lee was the city manager / administrative signatory and implementation counterpart.
The Water Valley Company and Colorado Eagles official pages describe Lind as a Windsor-area fourth-generation farmer who moved into development after agriculture and oil-and-gas work. The same official self-description ties him to Water Valley, Pelican Lakes, RainDance, Eagle Crossing, The Brands at the Ranch, Westlake Mall, and the Colorado Eagles. These sources are valuable but should be labeled as company/team biography when used. The current pass also recovered Windsor Planning Commission minutes directly naming Martin Lind of Raindance Land Company, LLC as owner / applicant for RainDance Fifth Filing.
Greeley records show a July 2024 MOU between the city and The Water Valley Company, a November 2024 work-session concept update, an April 2025 Pre-development Services Agreement with Trollco, Inc. d/b/a The Water Valley Company, and a May 2025 COP ordinance. Those records establish the formal public-private path, the city-owned Catalyst / privately developed Cascadia distinction, the fee-developer role, the VIMA affiliate land-transfer role, and the anticipated finance structure.
The Poudre Tech / Water Valley district site documents Lind board leadership in Poudre Tech and Water Valley Metropolitan District No. 2. The Colorado Judicial water-court resume documents Trollco, Raindance Aquatic Investments, RainDance Metropolitan District No. 1, Poudre Tech, VIMA, and several Lind / RainDance land vehicles in the RainDance reservoir and integrated-water-system record. This supports a governance / water / district layer, but detailed district debt and mill-levy claims require a second extraction pass.
TRACER bulk files recovered 15 Lind-family rows from advertised 2023-2026 filing sets, with Martin Lind contributions to Larimer County Republican Party, several state candidate committees, Reams for Commissioner, and Victor Marx for Governor. Municipal Greeley filings add a separate project-fight layer: Greeley Forward registered to oppose petitions on Ordinance 15 and Ordinance 30 and support the West Greeley Project, and its October 2025 filing reports $30,000 from Trollco.
A recovered Weld County District Court order copy in Martin Lind v. Greeley Deserves Better, Case No. 2025CV30994, dismissed Lind's defamation suit and awarded fees under Colorado's anti-SLAPP statute. The order is a key source for specific behind-the-scenes coordination evidence, including a Texas waterpark trip, Greeley Forward website sharing with city employees, and Trollco's $30,000 Greeley Forward contributions. Because the PDF was retrieved from an opposition site, future work should recover the official docket where possible.