Brinkman — and its employees — grow with region

FORT COLLINS – If Kevin and Paul Brinkman had ended up in the right country many years ago, when Kevin was a civil engineering student studying abroad in Spain, they may never have founded the construction and real-estate company that bears their name, has built more than 200 projects along the Front Range and is developing almost 750,000 more square feet.

Paul, the elder by four years, had come to Spain to visit Kevin when the brothers bought Eurail passes — which allow non-Europeans to freely travel by train between 28 European countries — and boarded a…