Bigger, better and coming soon

Within the next few months, a new building will appear on the lot of Grossenburg Implement to replace the 40-year-old structure that has been a fixture of Sundance’s business district for 40 years. It’s a necessary move, says manager Will Yemington, because there’s a lot more to the company these days than there was when the building went up.

“We’ve outgrown it,” he says. Over the last few decades, equipment has gotten bigger, the business has taken on more work and more customers and more parts are stocked on site.

The original building was constructed in 1979 at the behest of Bob and Mary Yemington. The Energy Electric served as the general contractor.

The barn and rock work – with rocks straight from Sundance Mountain and barn wood from the King ranch near Aladdin – was done by Tommy Langan, says Yemington. Langan was better known as “Teepee Tom”, he adds, because that’s where he lived when he arrived in town and was looking for accommodation.