Manse Data Center Investigation Series.
Who is really behind CDDC LLC and 9 of a Kind LLC, the two companies now in court against Nye County.
When you sue a whole county, your name goes on the paperwork. In the case against Nye County, two names do: CDDC LLC and 9 of a Kind LLC. Together they own nearly 911 acres along Carpenter Canyon Road and Highway 160. Neither name means anything to most people in Pahrump. That is on purpose.
Behind those two blank names are two Las Vegas families. One is among the best known names in Las Vegas real estate and has spent years in court, including against its own son. The other keeps quiet that we could not find it in the news. Public records show who they are.
The town deserves to know who is suing them.
9 of a Kind, and the McCormicks
Start with the quiet one.
9 of a Kind LLC has been registered in Nevada since January 2013. It started under another name, Lot Development LLC, and changed its name that June.
The Nevada Secretary of State lists three managers, all named McCormick: two men named Thomas McCormick and a woman named Jennifer McCormick. One Thomas McCormick lists an office at 1700 South Pavilion Center Drive, Suite 950, in Summerlin.
The other two list Las Vegas home addresses. When 9 of a Kind signed loan papers on its land this spring, the signature read "Thomas McCormick, Manager".
That is close to all the public record says about them. We found no news coverage, no company website and no public projects tied to these McCormicks. Quiet is not proof of anything. But for people now suing a county, it is worth noticing.
What is not quiet is the land. We found no Nye County land records for 9 of a Kind at all until the summer of 2024. On July 25, 2024, the company filed an amended list with the state showing Thomas McCormick at the Suite 950 office. Five weeks later it started buying. The Nye County Recorder shows:
- August 30, 2024: five parcels along Highway 160 and Manse Road, bought from a bank for about 1.7 million dollars, based on the 6,630 dollar transfer tax (Document 1035094).
- October 7, 2025: a 115 acre parcel on Fox Avenue, bought from L1 Development for 2.25 million dollars, with the seller carrying a loan (Documents 1058234 and 1058235).
- March 23, 2026: the Highway 160 land pledged to Western Alliance Bank as security for a loan (Document 1067373).
- May 27, 2026: two more parcels, 68 acres on Manse Road and 65 acres on Thousandaire Boulevard, for 5.65 million dollars (Document 1070968).
That is roughly 9.6 million dollars of desert in under two years.
The biggest deal, followed all the way through
The 5.65 million dollar purchase was recorded on May 27, 2026, at the request of Old Republic Title. The sellers were two more companies, Bristol Nevada LLC and Dover Nevada LLC and the name Jeffery Gunther, a Nevada politician.
The county collected 22,035 dollars in transfer tax. Nevada charges 1.95 dollars for every 500 dollars of value, and Nye County adds nothing, so 22,035 dollars works out to exactly 5.65 million. The full tax was paid and no exemption was claimed. That is what a normal sale between unrelated parties usually looks like. Who stands behind Bristol and Dover is a question for later in this series.
The sellers did well. County assessor records show Bristol and Dover bought those two parcels for about 1.3 million dollars combined in 2010 and 2012, when land out here was cheap after the crash. They sold for about 4.3 million dollars more than they paid.
They did not simply cash out. The same day the sale was recorded, 9 of a Kind signed a deed of trust promising to pay Bristol and Dover 2,825,000 dollars, exactly half the price (Document 1070969). In plain english; the sellers loaned 9 of a Kind half the money to buy their land. The Fox Avenue seller did the same.
That gives the McCormicks a lot riding on this lawsuit. A loan comes due whether a data center gets built or not.
CDDC, and the Canarelli operation
Now the well known family.
CDDC LLC did not exist a year ago. It was registered with the Nevada Secretary of State on December 15, 2025.
The state record names one manager: Investment Manager, Inc., at 1700 South Pavilion Center Drive, Suite 300. Its registered agent is another company at the same suite, C&F Executive Group. That is the same office building 9 of a Kind uses.
Investment Manager's own state record lists its officers: Lawrence Canarelli, president and director; Jeffrey Canarelli, treasurer; and Robert Evans, secretary. All three list Suite 300. So the answer to who runs CDDC is on file with the state. It is the Canarelli family's company.
Then the land. All 22 of CDDC's parcels came to it in three weeks this spring, and both deeds were signed by the same man.
- April 30, 2026: 17 parcels from Par Valley Holdings LLC, for 862,626 dollars. Par Valley's manager is Investment Manager, and the deed is signed "Lawrence D. Canarelli, President" (Document 1069438).
- May 21, 2026: five parcels from Adaven Management Inc, for about 468,000 dollars based on the tax paid. Signed "Lawrence D. Canarelli, President" (Document 1070574). Read Adaven backwards and it spells Nevada.
In other words, Larry Canarelli moved land out of two companies he signed for as president and into a brand new company managed by his own firm, a few months before that new company sued the county.
Who is he? Larry Canarelli founded American West Homes in 1984 and built about 20,000 homes in the Las Vegas Valley. In 2019 he sold the homebuilding business to PulteGroup, one of the biggest builders in the country, in a deal the Review-Journal put at more than 150 million dollars. At the time, the paper reported he still owned more than 6,000 acres of land in Southern Nevada.
Jeffrey Canarelli is also on the data center side. State records list him as treasurer, secretary and a director of NCDC Developer, Inc., the company that manages Manse Technology Campus LLC.
NCDC's president is Sean Dalesandro, the developer who has been the public face of the project. Both men list Suite 300. NCDC was formed in October 2024 with Jeffrey Canarelli as its first president.
Manse Technology Campus LLC was formed on July 15, 2026. The land company and the data center company work out of the same office, under the same family's management.
A family that lives in court
The record here is long, and it is public.
In 2009, American West Homes sued 45 of its own homeowners in the Classics development in Clark County District Court. The homeowners had filed construction defect claims. The company asked a judge to declare it had no obligation to answer them, arguing it had been dissolved as a corporation back in 2004.
In 2011, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that a judge could not force Larry Canarelli to serve as a director of a dissolved corporation to defend claims filed against it after it had wound up.
On March 1, 2012, the family's development company, American West Development, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and later reorganized.
Then the family fight. A trust was created in February 1998 for Larry and Heidi Canarelli's son, Scott. It held ownership stakes in his parents' businesses. Larry and Heidi served as trustees along with their attorney, Edward Lubbers. In 2013 the parents stepped down and Lubbers took over. Lubbers then signed an agreement worth more than 25 million dollars to sell the trust's stakes in the parents' companies.
Scott demanded a full accounting, including the details of that sale, and sued his parents and Lubbers. He accused them of breach of fiduciary duty, which means failing to protect the person a trust is supposed to protect, and of wrongly holding back money the trust owed him.
Lubbers died in early 2018, before he could be questioned under oath. The fight reached the Nevada Supreme Court in 2020 and again in 2022, over notes, documents and what each side was allowed to see.
It even spilled into federal court. The family's development company asked a bankruptcy judge to reopen its old case so it could hold Scott Canarelli and his lawyers in contempt over his trust lawsuit. The judge declined.
These are lawsuits and allegations, not criminal findings, and this story does not report how the trust case ended.
What the record shows is a family that has spent more than a decade in courtrooms, against its own homeowners and against its own son, and knows exactly how to use one.
What changed hands, and when
- August 2024: 9 of a Kind buys its first Nye County land.
- October 2024: NCDC Developer is formed at Suite 300.
- October 2025: 9 of a Kind buys the Fox Avenue parcel.
- December 15, 2025: CDDC is registered, managed by Investment Manager.
- March 2026: 9 of a Kind pledges its Highway 160 land to Western Alliance Bank.
- April 30 and May 21, 2026: Larry Canarelli signs 22 parcels into CDDC.
- May 27, 2026: 9 of a Kind buys the Manse and Thousandaire parcels for 5.65 million dollars, half financed by the sellers.
- July 15, 2026: Manse Technology Campus LLC is formed, managed by NCDC.
- August 20, 2026: Nye County commissioners vote 5 to 0 to ban data centers in the Pahrump water basin.
- September 2026: CDDC and 9 of a Kind go to court to throw out the ban.
That reads like a plan with a schedule.
What the town is up against
Put it plainly.
Pahrump is not fighting a faceless company. On one side is a family that built about 20,000 homes, sold its homebuilding business for more than 150 million dollars, and has spent more than a decade in court.
On the other is a family so quiet we could not find it in the news, which has put roughly 9.6 million dollars into local desert since the summer of 2024, with at least 2.8 million of it owed back to the sellers.
Both bought through company names instead of their own. Both work out of one office building in Summerlin. Both are now asking a judge to throw out the county's water protection.
They are organized, they are funded, and they are comfortable in a courtroom. A small county with a small budget is across the table from people who do this for a living.
None of this decides who is right in the lawsuit. It tells you what kind of opponent this is.
As we continue this series; we will follow the money the other direction, to Sean Dalesandro, Gigawatt Development, and more.
Sources and how to check them yourself
Every source is public. On screen the links are clickable. On paper, type the address into a browser. Recorder documents can be found by entering the document number at the Recorder's search page.
- Nevada Secretary of State business search (ORION): https://orion.nv.gov/portal/public/#/public/nvsos/en/CaseXscreen?screen=external-GenericFilingsSearch&tabRoute=business
- CDDC LLC, state record: orion.nv.gov (CDDC LLC)
- 9 of a Kind, LLC, state record: orion.nv.gov (9 of a Kind, LLC)
- Investment Manager, Inc., state record: orion.nv.gov (Investment Manager, Inc.)
- NCDC Developer, Inc., state record: orion.nv.gov (NCDC Developer, Inc.)
- Manse Technology Campus, LLC, state record: orion.nv.gov (Manse Technology Campus, LLC)
- Nye County Recorder, official records search (Documents 1035094, 1058234, 1058235, 1067373, 1069438, 1070574, 1070968, 1070969): https://nyecountynv-web.tylerhost.net/web/user/disclaimer
- Nye County Assessor, Fox Avenue parcel 045-361-04: https://nyenv-assessor.devnetwedge.com/parcel/view/04536104/2026
- Nye County Assessor, parcels 045-101-03 and 045-101-05: https://nyenv-assessor.devnetwedge.com/parcel/view/04510103/2026 and https://nyenv-assessor.devnetwedge.com/parcel/view/04510105/2026
- Nevada Department of Taxation, real property transfer tax rates: https://tax.nv.gov/faqs/real-property-transfer-tax-faqs
- KTNV, Companies sue Nye County over data center development ban (Sept. 25, 2026): https://www.ktnv.com/news/companies-sue-nye-county-over-data-center-development-ban
- Nevada Current, Nye County bans data centers in over appropriated water basin (Aug. 20, 2026): https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/08/20/nye-county-totally-bans-data-centers-in-over-appropriated-water-basin/
- Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas developer Larry Canarelli sells homebuilding operations: https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/housing/las-vegas-developer-larry-canarelli-sells-homebuilding-operations-1652379/
- Builder, Pulte Doubles Down on Las Vegas Bets With American West Acquisition (April 18, 2019): https://www.builderonline.com/builder-100/pulte-doubles-down-on-las-vegas-bets-with-american-west-acquisition_o
- Las Vegas Sun, American West sues LV homeowners over defect claims (June 2, 2009): https://lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/02/american-west-sues-lv-homeowners-over-defect-claim/
- Nevada Supreme Court, Canarelli v. District Court (2011), dissolved corporation director ruling: https://law.justia.com/cases/nevada/supreme-court/2011/57032-0.html
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Nevada, In re American West Development, Inc., Case No. 12-12349-MKN: https://www.nvb.uscourts.gov/downloads/opinions/mkn-12-12349-american-west-development.pdf
- Nevada Supreme Court, Canarelli v. District Court (2020), trust dispute: https://law.justia.com/cases/nevada/supreme-court/2020/78883.html and full text at https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/5304810/canarelli-vs-dist-ct-canarelli/
- Nevada Supreme Court, Canarelli v. District Court (2022), trust dispute: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/nv-supreme-court/2167259.html
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