Development
Modular Development Partners
We source the land, structure the capital, and develop the pipeline that flows through the TMG manufacturing platform. Every project begins with MDP.
Development
President — Modular Development Partners LLC
Richard J. deGorter
Rick deGorter brings more than thirty years of experience in real estate finance, development, and capital markets to his role as President of Modular Development Partners. His career spans the full arc of the development process — from land acquisition and entitlement through financing, construction management, and asset disposition — with a particular focus on Opportunity Zone structuring, public-private partnerships, and complex joint ventures. Prior to founding MDP, Rick served in senior leadership roles at Pulte Home Corporation, where he oversaw ten operating divisions with annual revenue exceeding $300 million, and at Leedco Corporation, an operating subsidiary of a $6.5 billion financial institution, where he created and managed a diversified portfolio of real estate development companies across the United States.
Rick deGorter brings more than thirty years of experience in real estate finance, development, and capital markets to his role as President of Modular Development Partners. His career spans the full arc of the development process — from land acquisition and entitlement through financing, construction management, and asset disposition — with a particular focus on Opportunity Zone structuring, public-private partnerships, and complex joint ventures. Prior to founding MDP, Rick served in senior leadership roles at Pulte Home Corporation, where he oversaw ten operating divisions with annual revenue exceeding $300 million, and at Leedco Corporation, an operating subsidiary of a $6.5 billion financial institution, where he created and managed a diversified portfolio of real estate development companies across the United States.
Our Role in the Platform
The development engine of TMG
MDP is not a conventional developer. We are the front end of an integrated manufacturing platform — identifying and structuring opportunities that are optomized for delivery by TMG’s full system.
This means we evaluate every site, every deal, and every capital structure through the lens of platform efficiency: Does this project maximize the output of the MMP factory network? Does it qualify for the economic development designations that compress financing cost? Does it create the right conditions for ARCO-Murray’s guaranteed delivery?
The answer to those questions is what produces returns that conventional development cannot match.
"Every project is sized and structured to run through the platform — not adapted to it after the fact."
- Land acquisition and site control
- Entitlement and permitting navigation
- Capital formation — equity, debt, public incentives
- Opportunity Zone and tax credit structuring
- Agency and municipal relationship management
- Project positioning for MMP manufacturing intake
Active Pipeline
4,800+ units under development
Brawley, CA. module manufacturing and assembly facility
Riverside County, California
Seaview
Multifamily residential development in the Inland Empire. Positioned for the MMP manufacturing pipeline and ARCO-Murray guaranteed delivery system.
Imperial County, California
Rancho Los Lagos
Residential development in Imperial County, locally positioned as a pipeline source for LH Housing and other institutional housing operators. Adjacent to the Brawley manufacturing site.
Casitas, and Multifamily
Del Rio Country Club Hotel
636-unit LGS residential development. The anchor project for the BiltWise JV manufacturing facility in Greenwood, SC — the first project to demonstrate the full TMG integrated delivery system on the East Coast.
Greenwood, South Carolina module manufacturing and assembly facility.
Kannapolis, North Carolina
LoopYard
636-unit LGS residential development. The anchor project for the BiltWise JV manufacturing facility in Greenwood, SC — the first project to demonstrate the full TMG integrated delivery system on the East Coast.
Huntsville, Alabama
Mixed Use Development
MDP as anchor tenant developer. The Brawley site carries five overlapping economic development designations: FTZ #257, Opportunity Zone, HUB Zone, NADBank border-region, and USDA Rural Development — creating a capital formation environment unlike any other manufacturing site in the country.
Strategic Evolution
Expertise in Management, Strength in Ownership
MDP operates through a dual-perspective narrative. We provide high-level development management services to external partners while simultaneously acting as the lead developer for our proprietary project portfolio. This unique position allows us to apply owner-level discipline to every advisory engagement.
Third-Party Advisory
Strategic guidance for institutional partners looking to optimize modular project delivery.
Proprietary Asset Growth
Direct investment and development of high-yield industrial and residential modular assets.
Risk-Mitigated Execution
Leveraging our balance sheet and operational data to ensure certainty of outcome.
hInternal Framework
Modular. Precise. Scalable.
"Modular Development Partners sometimes invests in upgrading production capabilities, (i.e. adding light gauge steel manufacturing capabilities) for members of the Modular Manufacturing partners factory network."
Capital Deployment
Elevating the Factory Network
MDP actively invests in the future of modular construction by providing capital and technical expertise to upgrade production capabilities within the MMP network.
Light Gauge Steel (LGS)
Advanced manufacturing of precision cold-formed steel components for high-rise modular applications.
24%
Efficiency Increase in Network Partner Factories
The Brawley Advantage
Five designations. One site. Unmatched capital access.
The 4639 N. 8th Street Brawley facility is the prototype for TMG’s Energy Independence Industrial Research Park model — and it carries an extraordinary combination of economic development designations that no comparable manufacturing site in the country can match.
Each designation independently unlocks distinct financing mechanisms. Together, they create a layered capital stack that can source equipment financing, working capital, grant funding, and tax advantage simultaneously — reducing effective project cost and expanding investor return.
- FTZ #257
- — Foreign Trade Zone designation enables duty deferral and inverted tariff benefits on imported manufacturing materials and components
- Opportunity Zone
- — Capital gains tax deferral and potential tax-free exit for qualifying investors
- HUB Zone
- — Federal contracting preference and set-aside access
- NADBank
- — Border-region infrastructure financing for the manufacturing facility
- USDA Rural Development
- — Business and industrial loan guarantees and rural infrastructure support
Bring us your site or your capital
MDP partners with landowners, municipalities, and investors to develop projects that belong on the TMG manufacturing platform.