Creating lasting places. Guiding the way to ownership.
Waymark MN Development Group builds new homes on overlooked Saint Paul lots and sells them to first-generation buyers. Drag the slider to see what we did with 810 Atlantic.
One Goal One Dream Financial Freedom was a dream two kids from Saint Paul's East Side shared: build wealth for our families and our neighborhood.
Waymark MN Development Group is that dream put to work. We buy overlooked lots, build homes and hand the keys to first-generation buyers. The name changed because the work did.
Saint Paul has plenty of vacant and underused lots, and most get one house or none. Our model scales from a single-family home to a fourplex, depending on the lot and what zoning allows. More families can own on the same footprint, using streets and utilities that already exist. 810 Atlantic was built as a duplex.
Duplex: the 810 Atlantic layout, built and sold in 2026.
We find vacant and underused infill lots, including City, HRA and land-bank parcels.
We fit proven two-unit plans to each lot, its zoning and the character of the block.
We combine private capital, construction lending and public tools so the price works for buyers.
Local trades build to code, and partners get milestone reporting.
We sell to owner-occupants and connect buyers with education and down-payment help.
Waymark pairs a builder with more than 40 project exits with an operator who has spent years building businesses and community on the East Side.
Michael is a Saint Paul entrepreneur. He founded Element Boxing Club, runs the Twin Cities cleaning company Lake Maids, and helps lead Keg House Commons, a community venue in a historic Saint Paul building. At Waymark he leads City and community relationships, brand, buyer outreach and operations.
Donovan develops for-sale infill housing and has exited more than 40 projects as general partner, delivering missing-middle homes in Minnesota, Texas and California. He trained as a petroleum engineer at the University of Tulsa and later worked in residential construction lending. He brings repeatable floor plans and disciplined underwriting home to Minnesota.
Both founders grew up within six miles of 810 Atlantic. Waymark is a Minnesota company building in the neighborhoods its founders come from.
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