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Water Line Metro is a C Corporation registered in Virginia and is making preparations to sell its stock directly to the public via this web site. SEC regulations will allow the issuance of up to $5 million dollars of stock in any 12-month period under a Regulation A exemption. We believe that the people most impacted by the traffic mess in our region should be allowed to benefit economically from a great traffic solution like ours by owning stock in the company that brings it about.
The Plan: 1 part Transit + 1 part Real Estate = Water Line Metro, Inc.
- Raise initial funds through Direct Public Offering stock sale (up to $5 million).
- Initial stock sale establishes the value of stock withheld from sale
- Withheld stock’s equity will be used as security for financing of operations and the purchase Vessels, Infrastructure, Landing rights, etc.
- Use the majority of initial funds raised to purchase depressed real estate to maintain stock value (up to 80%).
- Put in the Transit to that real estate with secured loans based on stock valuation.
- Watch our real estate rocket in value.
If Water Line Metro's projections are correct, our purchases in the overly-depressed real estate in portions of Maryland could increase by many, many times their purchase price without having to build a single home!
Here is why:
Real Estate near transit resources is more valuable than land farther away. The I-95/RT.1 corridor runs generally parallel to both the Potomac River and the Virginia Rail Express route from Fredericksburg, VA. The housing near these routes, on the Virginia side of the river, is expensive with a vacant 1/4 acre lot going for about $300,000. Even in the current housing slump of 15% - 20%, that vacant lot will only reduce in price to about $250,000.
But if you jump to the Maryland side of the river, the view changes dramatically. In Charles County, MD a vacant 1/4 acre lot can be priced as low as $10,000! That is one-thirtieth (1/30) the value of the same vacant lot on the Virginia side. The reason: Transit options in Maryland along the same river are very limited and the average commute to D.C. is well over 90 minutes one-way.
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Area developers know this and don't even build in that area. This link: Residential Corridors should bring you to a well-known developer's web site where you can see a map of where their developments are located. None are in Charles County, yet that county is much closer to D.C. than Fredericksburg. Again, the reason is Transit.
Water Line Metro will capitalize on this price differential in real estate by purchasing inexpensive land, by providing transit to landings near its holdings (while serving existing commuter needs), and then watch its real estate holdings increase value dramatically. Logic indicates our real estate holdings could possibly increase by up to 30 times the initial investment, but the simple act of opening up tens of thousands of new acres for development in Maryland will change existing values in unpredictable ways.
 This boon can and should be passed on to our investors via the mechanism of a Regulation A Offering. Of course, no stock offering may be made unless and until the State of Virginia has approved Water Line Metro's application for such an offering.
Water Line Metro, Inc. intends to first serve the commuting population in Virginia where pent up demand is greatest. A Virginia-first strategy will allow Water Line Metro to establish one or more successful routes to D.C., thus proving the concept to potential Maryland sites. VDOT's market survey in 2000, as well as three prior market surveys completed since 1988, indicates the demand for an efficient Commuter Ferry is high and Water Line Metro will capitalize on this un-met demand. Once the Virginia route(s) are established, then Maryland routes will be opened.
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