Global Development and Finances, LLC (GDF), (aka, "The Canal Company") is a design, real estate development, and investment company, founded by a highly experienced team of collaborative lifestyle developers, general contractor, builders, management specialists, content producers, and financiers.
GDF is a “One Stop Multi-Service Boutique” for Acquisition + Development + Operations + Management (ADOM), based in Louisiana, with planned offices opening in California, Ohio, Oklahoma, New York, and Seoul, S. Korea,
We are passionate about developing and leveraging “Tangible + Virtual" assets for our Hospitality, Entertainment, Finance, and Technology (HEFT) ecosystem, which is THE foundation of a cultural movement to design, create, and build more desirable 21st-Century “Live, Work, and Play…Spaces and Places” for the people and communities in which we serve.
Collaborate with synergistic visionaries, developers, builders, technologists, and financiers committed to cultivating development opportunities in Urban and Rural communities across the U.S. and throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean Islands.
OUR AIM
Designing new ADOM cycles and experiences built on a foundation that integrates the development of both tangible and virtual assets into a project's designs, builds, and revenue returns.
GDF works closely with our developer, builder, and financing teams and partners to help design, develop, build, and create the "next wave" real estate development experiences.
To achieve those experiences it's all about Vision, Collaboration, Execution...and Reimagining the approach to design, development, resource allocation, and creativity across multiple disciplines.
INTEGRATION
GDF is committed to integrating the latest in technological advancements in design, development, and construction (including modular and 3D printing) to help advance, create, and build more innovative spaces and places for global communities of the future today.
EXPERIENTIAL
Our workspace, home, hospitality, health and wellness developments are designed with customizable 3D, augmented reality, and mixed reality (3D+AR+XR) and streaming technologies to support current and emerging immersive “Next Wave” experiential capabilities for enhanced Live, Work, and Play...Spaces and Places.
ENGAGEMENT
We believe eco-friendly and sustainable development projects should be designed to support cleaner living, which can lead to better community engagement and connectivity for current and future generations to come.
Latin America is an important global market and GDF seeks to cultivate development opportunities for large-scale mixed-use, resort, multi-family, health, wellness, power, infrastructure, and manufacturing projects in the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, Central America, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Peru and throughout Latin America.
GDF seeks to leverage key alliance relationships to advance real estate, content, production, and technology development opportunities (private and quasi-governmental) for large-scale mixed-use, housing, power, infrastructure, and manufacturing projects from the Philippines, Indonesia, to “the silk road”, and throughout the European continent.
