Stan Kroenke, the rancher and billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Rams, Denver Nuggets and other major sports teams, is now the largest private landowner in the United States, according to The Land Report, which tracks private land holdings.
In December, the billionaire purchased 937,000 acres of noncontiguous land in New Mexico, according to the Land Report, making it the largest single land purchase in the U.S. since 2011 and nudging his total holdings to more than 2.7 million acres dotted across the American West and Canada.
Kroenke owns roughly 60 million square feet of commercial space, including huge sports venues in Inglewood, California, and Denver.