Bill Gates isn't even close to America's largest private landowner. It's 'Silent Stan' Kroenke, Walmart husband and LA Rams owner | Fortune
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Bill Gates isn't even close to America's largest private landowner. It's 'Silent Stan' Kroenke, Walmart husband and LA Rams owner | Fortune
"Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the world's most valuable portfolio of sports clubs, including the Los Angeles Rams and London's Arsenal Football Club, can boast another title. The Colorado real-estate magnate, once dubbed " Silent Stan" for his reticence to talk to the press, is America's largest private landowner, according to a report published this week by The Land Report. Kroenke owns 2.7 million acres, about as much as 2 million football fields and larger than the sprawling Yosemite National Park."
"Rocketing up to the No. 1 spot on the list-up from No. 4 in 2025-Kroenke's holdings ballooned largely thanks to a purchase of 937,000 acres of ranchland in December from the Singleton family behind industrial conglomerate Teledyne Technologies. It was the largest land purchase in the U.S. in more than a decade. Kroenke owes the beginnings of his real estate empire to the success of Walmart,"
Stan Kroenke owns 2.7 million acres and ranks as the largest private landowner in the United States. His holdings rose to No. 1 after a December purchase of 937,000 acres of ranchland from the Singleton family, the largest U.S. land acquisition in more than a decade. Kroenke built his real estate fortune developing shopping centers anchored by Walmart and is married to Walmart heiress Ann Walton Kroenke. He owns high-value sports clubs including the Los Angeles Rams and Arsenal. Other wealthy owners are also buying farmland and timberland to hedge wealth, inflation, and volatility.
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