Portal.Place

Proposed Campus Upgrades

Phase 2

80 New Prefab Units
Goals:
Revenue / Capacity
80 New Prefab Units
Manufacture and deploy prefab cabins and mobile tiny homes in phases to grow lodging inventory with a consistent, high-comfort standard. This pairs naturally with both the recurring membership model and a rent-to-own pathway in the future. We can supply the units and offer a clear path from “try the lifestyle” to “own your place here over time.” Controlling manufacturing allows for stronger aesthetic/brand standard, and a repeatable “village kit” for future locations.
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Coworking Center & Cafe
Goals:
Culture / Programming, Guest Experience, Membership / Retention
Coworking Center & Cafe
Enclose and upgrade the existing gazebo into a heated coworking pavilion with improved power, desks, lighting, and an integrated café-style kitchen for food, drinks, and casual gatherings. This creates a true daily work and social hub, supporting longer stays for remote workers and families while making the property genuinely functional for modern life.
Wellness Upgrades​
Goals:
Brand / PR / Story, Culture / Programming, Guest Experience
Wellness Upgrades​
Expand the wellness zone with additional sauna and hot tub capacity, plus a dedicated CrossFit-style gym. This supports daily health routines and shoulder-season comfort, strengthens the “live well here” lifestyle, and helps increase membership retention and length of stay.
Pro Operations & Land Security
Goals:
Operational Efficiency, Resilience, Safety / Liability
Pro Operations & Land Security
Establish a multi-year operating reserve to support professional, full-time staff across operations, hospitality, maintenance, programming, and management, ensuring continuity and service quality as the village scales. In parallel, strengthen the long-term security of the land by resolving existing financial encumbrances and consolidating ownership, providing a stable foundation that protects the campus, reduces risk, and allows long-term planning and investment with confidence.
Daily-Life Facilities​
Goals:
Guest Experience, Membership / Retention
Daily-Life Facilities​
Improve the practical infrastructure that makes long-stay living effortless — Laundry, Showers, Kitchens, Storage, Comfort Upgrades. These upgrades reduce friction during peak times, support families, and prevent the common failure mode of great vision + avoidable day-to-day inconvenience. Done well, this category quietly increases retention, reviews, and length of stay.
Festival-Ready Land Preparation
Goals:
Brand / PR / Story, Culture / Programming, Guest Experience
Festival-Ready Land Preparation
Prepare and upgrade key areas of the property to support large-scale festivals and cultural gatherings, including land clearing, grading, access routes, power distribution, lighting, and crowd flow planning. This makes it possible to host multi-day events safely and efficiently while protecting the land, expanding cultural programming, and unlocking new revenue opportunities through festivals, performances, and large gatherings.

Phase 3

Village Services​
Goals:
Guest Experience, Membership / Retention, Revenue / Capacity
Village Services​
Add optional services that make longer stays dramatically easier and more appealing. Examples include cleaning service, meal service, shuttle transport, childcare, workshop facilitation, and concierge-style coordination for long-stay members. This category helps the village feel professionally supported while allowing people to opt into the level of support they want.
Expand Maker Space
Goals:
Operational Efficiency, Resilience
Expand Maker Space
Create a dedicated build shop for fabrication, repairs, prototyping. This becomes our on-site production engine for cabins and mobile tiny homes, plus the furnishings, built-ins, signage, decor, and functional details that give every unit a consistent “Smart Village” standard. It strengthens operations while reinforcing a culture of capability—people building real things together.
Staff Housing
Goals:
Operational Efficiency
Staff Housing
Add staff housing and a centralized operations HQ to support a stable on-site team and higher service standards. This improves reliability across maintenance, cleanliness, guest support, and safety—especially as capacity increases. It’s a foundational layer for running the campus professionally and consistently.
Food Truck
Goals:
Membership / Retention, Resilience, Revenue / Capacity
Food Truck
Add a dedicated food truck to provide flexible, high-quality meals and drinks without the overhead of a permanent restaurant build-out. This creates an easy gathering point, supports events and peak seasons, enables rotating chefs or concepts, and improves day-to-day convenience for guests and long-stay residents.
Regenerative Farm & Gardens​
Goals:
Brand / PR / Story, Culture / Programming, Resilience
Regenerative Farm & Gardens​
Develop a modest permaculture farm and garden system to improve food quality, beauty, education, and ecological regeneration. This can supply seasonal produce for guests and programs, support hands-on learning, and deepen the place-based identity of the village. Even at modest scale, it becomes a visible “regeneration layer” that makes the land feel alive and cared for.
Storytelling & Growth Engine​
Goals:
Brand / PR / Story, Membership / Retention
Storytelling & Growth Engine​
Fund a consistent marketing and media program that documents progress and drives demand across guests, members, and partners. This includes high-quality short-form and long-form video, campaigns, sales assets—and a flagship documentary that tells the deeper story of why smart villages matter in a post-AI world.

Phase 4

Forest School + Learning Campus
Goals:
Brand / PR / Story, Culture / Programming, Membership / Retention
Forest School + Learning Campus
Build a phased learning campus designed for families who feel that conventional schooling is not adequately preparing kids for the future. The program direction blends forest schooling, Montessori-style independence, worldschooling-inspired cultural experience, and holistic future-ready learning: meta-skills, learning how to learn, maker/DIY competency, hands-on building, technology fluency, and grounded preparation for a rapidly changing post-AI world. This strengthens intergenerational continuity and makes the village campus far more attractive for families.
100 New 50-Amp RV Sites​
Goals:
Revenue / Capacity
100 New 50-Amp RV Sites​
Build 100 additional 50-amp RV sites designed for comfortable long-stay seasonal living. This expands capacity in the most frictionless format for arrivals, departures, and repeat seasonal returns—supporting the “mobility + continuity” model that makes the village network scalable.
Event Dome & Community Center
Goals:
Culture / Programming, Guest Experience, Membership / Retention
Event Dome & Community Center
Construct a large, all-season event dome equipped with professional audio, lighting, and visual systems to support talks, live music, festivals, and digital or multimedia exhibitions. This creates a flexible, weather-proof cultural centerpiece that enables consistent year-round programming, attracts artists and collaborators, and opens new opportunities for performances, exhibitions, and large gatherings while strengthening the campus as a destination for events and retreats.
Family Playground Upgrade​
Goals:
Guest Experience
Family Playground Upgrade​
Upgrade the playground and kids’ zone to better support families staying for weeks or months. This improves daily quality of life, strengthens the multi-generational foundation of the village, and makes longer stays feel natural rather than challenging. It also supports the broader learning and family-programming layer of the campus.
Resilient Power System​
Goals:
Resilience
Resilient Power System​
Install energy resilience infrastructure such as solar, battery storage for critical loads, and practical backup systems. This improves uptime during outages and peak demand, reduces exposure to energy volatility, and supports grounded resilience focused on reliability—not off-grid ideology.
Outdoor Art Trail & Nature Gallery
Goals:
Brand / PR / Story, Culture / Programming, Guest Experience
Outdoor Art Trail & Nature Gallery
Develop a multi-kilometer outdoor art walk by integrating large-scale and site-specific art installations along the existing hiking trails on the back portion of the property. In partnership with festivals such as Otherworld, artists can install works during events and leave them in place, creating a permanent, evolving nature-based gallery that attracts visitors, supports cultural programming, and transforms the land itself into a walkable art experience year-round.

Phase 5

Adjacent Properties Expansion​
Goals:
Revenue / Capacity
Adjacent Properties Expansion​
Acquire adjacent recreational properties if the price and terms are strong, adding existing accommodations and facilities (such as restaurant, lodge, guest ranch, etc) into the broader campus. Because the structures are already built and permitted, this could save significant time—and potentially money—compared to building from scratch.
Rent-to-Own Tiny Homes​
Goals:
Revenue / Capacity
Rent-to-Own Tiny Homes​
Create an accessible pathway for guests to own a small home over time, even when traditional banks won’t provide mortgages for tiny homes or non-standard dwellings. This is about access: making it possible for more families, makers, and remote workers to build stability without needing a conventional mortgage. It also increases retention by turning short-term interest into long-term commitment.
Robotics & Automation Lab
Goals:
Operational Efficiency, Resilience
Robotics & Automation Lab
Invest in a small fleet of emerging robots and automated systems to experiment with real-world operations across the property as capabilities and price points mature. This allows the village to pilot practical uses—maintenance, landscaping, logistics, cleaning, monitoring, and fabrication support—while positioning the campus as a living testbed for applied robotics in a human-scale environment, improving efficiency over time and informing future village deployments.

Phase 1 - Completed

Land Crowdfunding
Goals:
Resilience, Revenue / Capacity
Land Crowdfunding
Successfully crowdfunded the land acquisition through aligned supporters. This demonstrated early demand, validated the vision, and established the foundation to shape the project’s culture and direction.
High-Speed Internet
Goals:
Guest Experience, Membership / Retention
High-Speed Internet
Added high-speed satellite internet across key areas of the property to support remote work and longer stays. This made the site genuinely usable for modern work and communication needs.
Event Hosting & Programming
Goals:
Brand / PR / Story, Culture / Programming
Event Hosting & Programming
Hosted a range of events including disc golf and golf tournaments, weddings, health and wellness gatherings, and cultural events. This demonstrated the site’s ability to support diverse programming, attract different audiences, and operate as a multi-use destination beyond day-to-day accommodations.
Barrel Sauna
Goals:
Brand / PR / Story, Culture / Programming, Guest Experience
Barrel Sauna
Built and installed a barrel sauna to support wellness, recovery, and daily rhythms on the land. This established the first piece of the wellness layer and immediately improved the long-stay and shoulder-season experience.
Glamping Dome
Goals:
Guest Experience, Revenue / Capacity
Glamping Dome
Constructed a glamping dome to expand unique accommodation options and test alternative lodging formats. This added immediate capacity while helping refine design standards for future structures.
3D Drone Mapping & Digital Twin
Goals:
Brand / PR / Story, Operational Efficiency
3D Drone Mapping & Digital Twin
Completed a high-resolution 3D drone scan of the entire property to create a detailed digital twin of the land. This provides a precise foundation for planning, design, infrastructure layout, and future development while improving coordination, visualization, and long-term decision-making.
Membership System
Goals:
Membership / Retention, Revenue / Capacity
Membership System
Designed a structured membership system to support longer stays, recurring participation, and a sense of continuity across seasons. This laid the foundation for a scalable village network model.
Maker Space & Woodshop
Goals:
Operational Efficiency, Resilience
Maker Space & Woodshop
Built an on-site maker space and woodshop to support fabrication, repairs, and creative projects. This became a core operational asset, enabling hands-on building and rapid iteration.
Food Garden
Goals:
Brand / PR / Story, Resilience
Food Garden
Established an initial permaculture garden bed to begin testing regenerative growing methods on the land. This served as an early proof point for the food and ecology layer, informing future garden and farm expansion while adding beauty and hands-on learning opportunities.
Winter Water System
Goals:
Resilience, Revenue / Capacity
Winter Water System
Installed an insulated, heated winter water system to enable reliable year-round operations. This significantly improved resilience and reduced seasonal shutdown constraints.
New Equipment Purchases
Goals:
Operational Efficiency
New Equipment Purchases
Invested in new equipment to support operations, maintenance, and on-site projects. This increased efficiency, reduced downtime, and expanded what can be built and maintained internally.
Site Preparation & Infrastructure Clearing
Goals:
Operational Efficiency, Resilience
Site Preparation & Infrastructure Clearing
Cleared and prepared land for glamping and RV pad expansion, establishing the physical foundation for future build-outs. This early infrastructure work accelerated development timelines and enabled faster deployment of new accommodations and services.
Mechanical Shop Upgrade
Goals:
Operational Efficiency, Resilience
Mechanical Shop Upgrade
Upgraded the mechanical shop to better support vehicle, equipment, and infrastructure maintenance. This improved reliability and reduced dependence on off-site servicing.
New Signage
Goals:
Guest Experience
New Signage
Installed new signage across the property to improve wayfinding, safety, and overall experience. This helped establish a clearer identity and a more cohesive sense of place.