Wheeler chooses Longmont as site for support center

LONGMONT — Two of the region’s oldest real estate firms have their sights set on northern Boulder County and southern Larimer County and have merged to form a 175-agent realty company with a new corporate support center headquartered in Longmont.

Bill Neal, owner-broker of Fort Collins-based Wheeler Realty Better Homes & Gardens, said his firm’s partnership with Boulder-based Fowler Real Estate Better Homes & Gardens couples Wheeler’s commercial and residential development expertise with the residential marketing power behind the Fowler name.

“We are really excited about it,” Fowler vice president Chris Mygatt said. “A real catalyst of this entire merger…