Sitzman, Mitchell mix well in real estate

FORT COLLINS — What do you get when you put together a lawyer and an accountant?Try an extremely successful commercial development and real-estate firm.
In the past 20 years, Fort Collins-based Sitzman-Mitchell & Co. has quietly become a multimillion-dollar company through private investors, business relationships and the paring of two people who, with no previous background in the commercial real estate business, managed to partner up with the competition: Everitt Companies Real Estate Inc.
Eugene E. Mitchell was a lawyer by trade when he founded the company, then known as E.E. Mitchell & Co., in 1975. David Sitzman, now…