From Loveland Farmland to Centerra

Realberry's latest podcast appearance, published by the Denver Real Estate Investing Podcast, traces how co-founder and CEO Chad McWhinney went from moving to Loveland from Southern California at nineteen to helping shape some of Colorado's most recognized places. In conversation with host Chris Lopez, Chad revisits founding the firm with his brother Troy in 1991 and the patient land-option strategy that allowed two young developers to assemble farmland on the edge of Loveland through the early 1990s — a position that closed as 3,300 acres through Farm Credit Services in 1997 and became Centerra, the master-planned community that anchored Northern Colorado's growth for the next quarter century. 

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Denver Union Station and the Placemaking Playbook

The conversation then moves south to Denver, where an eleventh-hour partnership brought the family into the redevelopment of Denver Union Station, a project that opened the door to Dairy Block and the Crawford Hotel and reshaped how the firm thought about placemaking at the neighborhood scale. Chad describes the through-line connecting a mixed-use district in Loveland to a historic rail terminal downtown as a consistent conviction that the value in real estate accrues to whoever is willing to hold long enough for a place to mature — work that has since earned ULI Awards of Excellence at both Denver Union Station and Dairy Block, and Michelin Keys recognition at the Crawford. 

Patient Capital and the Realberry Rebrand

Much of the discussion turns on capital and time horizon. Chad makes the case that long-hold, aligned capital and short-term institutional capital produce meaningfully different buildings and different communities, and he points to a base of roughly 300 long-term investors — many of whom have been with the firm for more than thirty years — as evidence of what patient ownership makes possible. He frames the recent rebrand from McWhinney to Realberry in the same terms: a move to broaden access to that approach rather than a change in how the firm underwrites or holds. 

Colorado's Next Chapter: Supply, Policy, and Tokenization

Chad closes with his read on the current Colorado landscape, covering the multifamily supply cycle, the state's evolving legislative environment and how it is shaping capital sentiment, and where growth is concentrating across Northern Colorado. He ends on a forward-looking note, sharing his view that tokenization will eventually give individual investors direct access to institutional-grade real estate.