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David Sitzman

David Sitzman grew up in Wray, Colorado, a small agricultural community in eastern Colorado, graduating from Wray High School in 1976.  He obtained a Bachelors Degree with a major in Accounting from Colorado State University in 1980.  After graduation from CSU, Dave worked as a Certified Public Accountant for several years performing audits and tax consulting services.  In 1982, Dave began working for E.E. Mitchell & Co., one of his clients involved in real estate development in Fort Collins, Colorado.  Over the next few years, his employment evolved into a full partnership with Eugene Mitchell, the primary owner of the Company, and ultimately, full acquisition of ownership of the Company upon Eugene Mitchell’s retirement in 1996.  Dave has been the President and sole owner of the Company, now known as Sitzman-Mitchell & Co., since that time.  Dave continues to oversee the operations of Sitzman-Mitchell & Co., together with the activities of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Sitzman-Mitchell Property Management, Inc., and Sitzman-Mitchell Commercial Brokerage, Inc.  In 2006, Dave became a partner with Susan McFaddin to form Seven Generations, LLC for the purpose of pursuing real estate projects with a heavy focus on efficient and environmentally friendly building and design.

Dave’s history in real estate has involved extensive and varied aspects of the business, including acquisitions, sales, syndications, financing, brokerage, historic rehabilitations, conservation easements, and residential and commercial new construction.  Some of his company’s more notable development projects include the Fort Collins Marriott Hotel (a 230 room full service hotel), the Fort Collins Courtyard Hotel (a 112 room limited service hotel), the Fort Collins Residence Inn Hotel (a 113 room extended stay hotel), the Scotch Pines Village Shopping Center (a 100,000 s.f. retail/office project), Old Town Square (a redevelopment project located in the heart of Downtown Fort Collins, Colorado, including approximately 110,000 square feet of office and retail space in approximately a dozen separate historical buildings), the Arena Office Park (included various office pads and buildings on an infill site surrounding the Fort Collins Marriott Hotel), the Berthoud Village Shopping Center (a small, grocery anchored, shopping center project in Berthoud, Colorado), the Wells Fargo Bank Building ( a 3-story, 40,000 s.f. office building in Fort Collins, Colorado), the Cottages at Berthoud Village (a residential condominium development in Berthoud, Colorado), and the Diamond Farms RLUP (a rural land use plan residential development located north of Fort Collins, Colorado involving various residential lots and a conservation easement to enhance and preserve the historic agricultural use on portions of the residual land).

Dave has been actively involved in a variety of community organizations over the years, and particularly enjoys his involvement as a Board Member of Educo School of Colorado, a non-profit organization focusing on building children’s’ confidence and leadership skills through the use of outdoor adventure courses.  Currently, Dave is assisting Educo in the development of the Blue Moon Mountain Ranch, a 145 acre property located in the mountains west of Fort Collins, Colorado which will be utilized to provide the base camp for Educo’s courses, backpacking, and mountain climbing activities.

While Dave enjoys a wide array of outdoor activities, including mountain biking, fly-fishing, hunting, backpacking, and skiing, his primary enjoyment, and the pride of his life, are his two sons, Alex (age 10) and Nik (age 7) and his wonderful wife, Phyllis.