David J. Frank Landscape celebrates 65th anniversary with groundbreaking

David J. Frank Landscape Contracting began celebrating its 65^th anniversary by breaking ground for a new 10,000-square-foot mechanic shop. Coincidently, the groundbreaking took place on April 8, the birthdate of the company’s founder and namesake.

David J. Frank, who passed away in 2019, founded his company in 1959. At the age of nine, Frank began mowing lawns in his suburban Milwaukee neighborhood. By 12, he was already caring for more than 30 neighboring homes.

In 1974 he relocated the growing business, which had expanded its landscape services, to its current location in Germantown, Wisc., where he purchased 4.5 acres and built a combined office, garage, and shop. He and his wife lived in a camper in the parking lot for the next seven years.

The new 10-bay shop will service the company’s dozens of vehicles and hundreds of pieces of equipment and will replace the 50-year-old four-bay shop that is outdated and unable to accommodate an extensive and expensive renovation. The old shop will be torn down to make way for office expansion when the new shop is finished in the fall.