Practitioner education for real estate development
Learn the order. Control the outcome.
Real-world development education across capital, development and construction — taught through the decisions, documents and controls used in practice.
Completed Family Development community — aerial view. Photograph published by Family Development. Not an Academy or Threefold Development Partners project. See the project gallery.
Real-world principal experience
Learn From 73+ Years of Combined Experience
73+ Years
of combined experience
- Billions Transacted
- Thousands of Commercial and Residential Units Built
- Hundreds of Millions Constructed and Developed
Practitioner education shaped by real-world experience across capital, development, construction, and execution.
Meet the practitionersReleased cohorts
Full scheduleThe standard
Three men. Three disciplines. One development standard.
Capital, development and construction are braided together before irreversible decisions are made — the same way the work is actually run.
Together, the Academy’s principals bring more than 73 years of combined experience encompassing billions in transactional sales, thousands of commercial and residential units built, and hundreds of millions of dollars in projects constructed and developed.
Capital, Strategy & Partnerships
Felipe Soares
Capital structure, sources and uses, governance and investor readiness across the curriculum.
Construction, Controls & Execution
Robert K. Bishop
Scope, contracts, procurement, budget, schedule, change control and project recovery.
Blueprint to built
The Development Path
Each stage asks one question, produces one artifact and leads to the next.
Development 101
Qualify it.
Development 102
Structure it.
Development 103
Control it.
101
Qualify it.
Is this land capable of becoming the project you imagine?
Subdivision Opportunity File
3 days · virtual or in person
102
Structure it.
Can the project be structured, financed, governed and managed responsibly?
Integrated Development Plan
3 days · virtual or in person
103
Control it.
Can the owner keep control once the project enters the field?
Owner Project Control Kit
3 days · virtual or in person
Graduate
Complete the standard.
Have all three disciplines been carried through one project?
Complete Development Path
Three courses, in sequence
Inner Circle
Implement it.
Who holds you to the standard while you build?
12-month membership
Application required
Private Coaching
Personalize it.
What do your own decisions require?
12 months · six members
Application required
Annual Summit
Connect and advance.
Where do practitioners come back together?
Annual gathering
Not yet announced
Partners
Build with us.
Is there a project we should build together?
Threefold Development Partners
Separate from the Academy · by invitation
The curriculum
Three courses, in sequence
Take a single course, a pair, or the complete path. Each runs three days, virtual or in person in McKinney, Texas.
Development 101
From raw land to buildable lots
Qualify the land before the land qualifies your wallet.
- Outcome
- Leave with a defensible go / no-go decision on a real site.
- Covers
- Land, surveys, utilities, drainage, entitlements, feasibility and lot yield.
- Format
- 3 days · virtual or in person
- You produce
- Subdivision Opportunity File
- Tuition
- $995 virtual · $1,995 in person
Development 102
The developer's playbook
Bring feasibility, capital, development and execution into one plan.
- Outcome
- Leave with a plan you can take to an investment committee.
- Covers
- Feasibility, sources and uses, capital structure, governance and procurement.
- Format
- 3 days · virtual or in person
- You produce
- Integrated Development Plan
- Tuition
- $995 virtual · $1,995 in person
Development 103
Project command
Control cost, schedule and risk before they control the project.
- Outcome
- Leave with the controls an owner needs once work starts.
- Covers
- Scope, contracts, bid leveling, budget, schedule, change, draws and recovery.
- Format
- 3 days · virtual or in person
- You produce
- Owner Project Control Kit
- Tuition
- $995 virtual · $1,995 in person
What you leave with
Not notes. Working documents.
Every course produces an artifact you keep and use on a real project.
Subdivision Opportunity File
The evidence ladder, fatal-flaw findings, lot yield and the decision memo for one real site.
Development 101
Integrated Development Plan
Feasibility, sources and uses, capital structure, schedule and the investment committee presentation.
Development 102
Owner Project Control Kit
Budget and commitment registers, change control, draw documentation, cost to complete and a 30/60/90 recovery plan.
Development 103
Developer Toolkit
The working documents and models used across the curriculum, in your own copies.
Included with courses
Real-world experience
Taught from communities that were actually built
Professional-experience context, shown with its source and credit intact.
Real-world principal experience
Real-world principal experience
The curriculum is informed by more than 73 years of combined principal experience across real estate investment, capital strategy, commercial and residential development, construction, and project execution.
73+ Years
of combined experience
- Billions Transacted
- Thousands of Commercial and Residential Units Built
- Hundreds of Millions Constructed and Developed
Figures represent the collective prior experience of the Academy’s principals and the companies through which that experience was earned—not projects completed by Threefold Development Academy.
Selected Family Development communities delivered during Robert K. Bishop's tenure as a principal overseeing internal construction operations. Photography published by Family Development (familydevelopmenthomes.com) and used with permission for professional-experience context. These are not Academy or Threefold Development Partners projects. Individual project names and locations are not published until each one is confirmed.
Advanced programs
Alignment before assignment.
Full price, full terms, real availability — published before you apply.
Inner Circle · 12 months
Stop collecting information. Start building with discipline.
$10,000 paid in full, or 12 monthly payments of $1,000 ($12,000 total). Capacity 24 members in total, including Private Coaching members. Application required.
Private Coaching · 12 months
When the decisions are personal, the guidance should be too.
$20,000 paid in full, or 12 monthly payments of $2,000 ($24,000 total). Six members maximum, counted inside the 24. Includes Inner Circle membership.
Annual Summit
The room where builders come back to what matters.
Date, location, price, capacity and member access are not yet announced. Registration is not yet open.
Faculty
Taught by the people who carry the risk
Approved headshots and full biographies are published as each is confirmed. No stock stand-ins are ever used.
Felipe Soares
Capital, Strategy & Partnerships
Capital structure, sources and uses, governance and investor readiness across the curriculum.
Robert K. Bishop
Construction, Controls & Execution
Scope, contracts, procurement, budget, schedule, change control and project recovery.
Certificate registry
Every certificate can be checked
Graduates receive a numbered certificate in the format TDA-YYYY-00001, issued on completion. The public check confirms the holder's name, course, title and issue date — nothing more. A revoked certificate fails the check.