Legal & Courts  October 29, 2004

Progressive Living, Wheeler stay focused in face of tragedy

From a day-to-day perspective, business for Wheeler Commercial and Progressive Living Structures has continued more or less normally since late July.
That’s remarkable when one considers the two businesses lost three principals in one tragic moment.
Leo Schuster, Bill Neal and Scott Nelson were killed July 24 when the small plane they were in crashed. Schuster was acting president and founder of Progressive Living Structures. Neal was an owner and Scott Nelson a senior broker at Wheeler Commercial.
Survivors in the two businesses say that while they and co-workers are dealing with the tremendous emotional fallout from the accident, their…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.

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