Sleeping pods
Compact, design-led stays for one or two guests. An enclosed, comfortable room and private outdoor space, subject to an approved building system.
Development partners
A desert retreat.
The right team to build it.
Rancho Codorniz is seeking an experienced California hospitality co-developer and operator to turn a mature desert-retreat concept into a permitted, commercially viable property.
Current stage
Brand and experience concept established. No site is controlled, development partner appointed, or professional feasibility study completed. We are preparing for those next steps.
Three lodging types. One shared guest experience.
Container homes
The other principal lodging type: a small kitchen, bathroom, indoor–outdoor living, and a roof-deck concept. Commercial-code, thermal, and structural costs still need testing.
Family casitas
Only two or three larger casitas in the long-term creative brief, serving families and longer stays. No total key count or site capacity is approved.
The Oasis, Casa Sabia, food, and small cultural gatherings create the shared experience. Their opening scope must follow legal feasibility, water and infrastructure capacity, operating cost, and funding.
Our working ambition is a first operating resort phase by September 2029—not a confirmed opening date. The first year must establish a capable sponsor team, a controlled site, a credible approval route, and site-specific costs and operating economics. A small pilot and a direct hospitality first phase will be compared before the room count is set.
The proposed model
Creative founder × development partner
Vision, brand, and guest experience
Alexis Rodriguez leads creative direction, identity, cultural programming, and the guest experience. The brand and concept assets are established; the founding-guest platform is ready to begin demand validation. No audience size is claimed.
Acquisition, entitlements, delivery, and operations
Demonstrated hospitality execution, California land-use experience, professional team leadership, capital formation, and accountable operations.
Who we want to meet
California development
Site acquisition, entitlement strategy, infrastructure, procurement, construction, and delivery.
Hospitality operations
Comp-backed underwriting, service design, staffing, distribution, revenue management, and opening.
Aligned capital
Predevelopment and project capital that respects phased risk retirement and the long-term brand.
What is true today
- No parcel is represented as acquired or entitled.
- Concept visuals are not surveys, plans, permits, or construction documents.
- Development scenarios remain preliminary until a site and professional budget exist.
- The immediate ask is an exploratory development-partner discussion and a scoped professional feasibility program.
- This page is not an offer to sell securities or future stays.
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Tell us what you have built.
Share relevant hospitality, desert, entitlement, operating, or capital experience. We would like to discuss relevant projects, the right first-phase scale, and a practical scope for feasibility.