Common Ground is where Nevada land is shown whole — lots advertised by their sellers, public auctions, and public sales — where every parcel arrives with its story already gathered: a zoomable map, its legal constraints, what's actually doable on it, the grants and rebates tied to its ZIP and county, and people already living that way, showing you how in the wire.
Nobody should have to chase thirty websites for one piece of land. One parcel, one dossier, everything in one place. Common Ground is boarding its first parcels now — buyers, follow the ground you want; sellers, this is where your lot gets seen whole.
Lots advertised by their sellers, county auctions, tax sales, surplus and public-sale land across the three territories — gathered in one place.
Everything public and searchable about that parcel — zoning, water, access, prior legal constraints — gathered once, filed per parcel, so you don't have to hunt it down.
Each parcel gets honest use ideas drawn from its real constraints — camp, graze, build, create, gather — grounded in the ground itself.
Where the land and the rules allow, come live it for a stretch. Camp, graze, move, repeat — feel whether the rhythm fits before you commit.
Every advertised parcel carries its seller's own contact. Common Ground shows you the land whole — you and the seller take it from there, directly.
Tap a pin or a card — the map and the list stay in step. Each pin opens its dossier below: constraints, doable uses, grants by ZIP and county, and whether a tent trial fits. Scenario pins are the two models from the wire — places that already proved the idea, not land for sale.
Pins mark territory and scenario locations. New parcel pins join this map as Common Ground's first boarded parcels are published — each one opening a full dossier.
Pick a territory or scenario on the map above (or a scenario card below) and its dossier loads here. This is the story every Common Ground parcel carries — so nothing you need lives scattered across thirty other websites.
The encouraging part: help is checked parcel by parcel, against that parcel's own ZIP and county — so a family stretching every penny sees the real help right next to the price, before they ever visit.
Common Ground is a publication that advertises land — it doesn't represent buyers or sellers, handle sales, or advise on a parcel's price. When a parcel is advertised here, the seller's own contact is part of the listing, and you reach them directly. Want new-parcel stories and territory news instead? Join Common Ground's own audience with the form at the bottom of this page — that's for Common Ground readers, and it is never passed to a seller.
Every Common Ground story leads with the picture of what the land can hold. These are the three ways of life Common Ground follows — tap one to open its dossier above.
The oldest pattern there is: pitch the tent on fresh ground, live the rhythm for a stretch, strike camp and move when the ground says so. Parcels in Tonopah and Ely are read first for exactly this — water, access, stay limits, grazing room — so a trial tells the truth before any money does.
Perry took a closed Army base — Fort McPherson in Atlanta, shut in 2011 after the 2005 federal base-closure round — and bought 330 acres of it for $30 million in 2015, in a deal run through the local redevelopment authority (MILRA), which kept the remaining ~144 acres for other development. He built it into a working studio: sound stages, a full backlot, crews of hundreds, over $250 million invested. The lesson for Vegas-area land isn't the size, it's the sequence: public land deal first, stages and work second, a place where creators live, shoot and earn in one footprint.
Whittier, Alaska runs a whole town through one building — apartments above, and the school, the police station, the mail and the store inside it, with town services alongside. As a land scenario it asks a sharp question: what if one well-placed parcel holds the housing and the store, the classroom, the police station, the clinic and the mail — so a small community starts complete instead of scattered?
Every dossier carries a help index for its own ZIP and county. These are the kinds of help Common Ground checks for each territory — and for a specific parcel, its dossier shows the programs that fit its ground.
Every story in the wire follows the same shape: the big number up front, the jobs the deal creates, and the public framework that made it possible — then the dossier, so anyone inspired can see how ground like it changes hands.
Tyler Perry Studios, Atlanta — the creator-compound scenario, profiled in full in the dossier above: how the land was acquired, what was built on it, and the hundreds of crew jobs a compound carries. The template for creator land around Las Vegas.
Whittier, Alaska and the one-block city — apartments, school, police, mail, store and services under one roof. Profiled as a scenario for parcels that could start a community complete, not scattered.
Common Ground's first boarded parcels are on their way in both territories: every advertised lot and every county auction or public-sale parcel arrives with a dossier — map pin, constraints, grants by ZIP — so you can read the ground before you ever drive to it. Selling land out there? Your lot belongs in this boarding — see Advertise Your Lot below.
The wire is where practitioners tell their own stories: the camp hosts, compound builders and one-block residents showing their own setups — how they pitched, built and made it work — so you can learn from ground already lived on.
People living the camp-graze-move rhythm on Nevada ground, showing their tent setups, water hauls, solar rigs and stay rotations — and what they'd check before buying the land under them.
Creators who turned a parcel and a building into a place to shoot, work and house a crew — budgets, stages, backlots and the public deals that got them the ground.
People living the all-under-one-roof life, showing how housing, store, school, police and services share one footprint — and what a parcel needs before that model can stand on it.
People advertise their lots for sale on Common Ground, and Common Ground advertises for them. Sellers and land programs buy placement at a published rate — a parcel showcase, a territory sponsorship, a spot in the wire — and every placement is labeled Advertising, plainly, where readers see it.
What Common Ground is, and is not, in one breath: Common Ground is a publication and an advertising surface. It does not represent buyers or sellers, it does not handle any sale, and it does not advise on a parcel's price. Your listing carries your contact, and buyers reach you directly — Common Ground's job is to make sure they arrive having already read your land's whole story.
Founding placements are boarding now. Common Ground is taking its first advertised parcels in Las Vegas & surroundings, Tonopah and Ely. Paid placements open with that founding boarding — tell Common Ground about your lot below, and your parcel joins the first group readers meet.
County, ZIP, size, and how buyers should reach you. Private owner, county program, auction house — if the land is for sale, it can be advertised here.
Your parcel gets the full treatment: map pin, public record gathered in one file, constraints in plain words, grants and rebates for its ZIP and county, and an honest read on what the ground can hold.
Your placement runs as advertising — in the parcel showcase, the territory pages, and the wire — with your direct contact in it. Readers come to you; nobody stands between you and your buyer.
Questions, visits, offers, the sale itself — all of it happens between you and the buyer. Common Ground keeps the dossier published and the story told; the land deal is yours.
Your lot, shown whole: a pinned map position, a full dossier, and a showcase written for buyers who are stretching every penny and want the help index beside the price.
Land programs, counties and sellers with ground across a territory put their name where Common Ground's readers are looking — territory pages and the wire, at a published rate.
The first advertised parcels in each territory board together, as founding placements. This is the group that opens the map — and the first stories the wire tells.
Two ways in, both for Common Ground's own audience. Buying? Tell Common Ground which territory or way of life you're following, and your note shapes what the wire covers next — new parcels, scenarios, help that fits your ground. Selling? Choose “Advertise my lot” and your note opens your founding-placement conversation. Either way, this note is for Common Ground only: it is never a registration with a seller, and buyers and sellers always deal with each other directly. Nothing is stored by this page — copy your note and send it in.