95-year-old millwork company sold
In 1929, Carl Trostel founded the first store on Linden Street and supplied lumber and building materials to the growing Northern Colorado construction industry. In 1948, Carl Trostel's son-in-law, Bob Sears, took over operations of the business, and for the next 30 years ownership remained with the Sears family. Then in 1981, Curt Viehmeyer and Steve Schwartz, employees of Sears Trostel Lumber, purchased and began to transform the company.