User:Tom.wartman/sandbox

Thomas Bruce Wartman was born in 1951 in Shorewood Minnesota. The son of Gloria and Phillip Wartman, he found himself the oldest son in the family, and the second eldest child of six. Growing up in a lower middle class family during the 50's and 60's meant finding something to do to stay out of trouble, and for Tom this meant starting a lawn service company at the age of 13. This early start to entreprenuerialism would eventually lead to over 20 businesses started in the twin cities area between the years of 1964 through 2011. In 1979, Tom founded Landform Inc, which during the 80's was considered among the premier developers on reknowned Lake Minnetonka, receiving 5 esteemed Reggie Awards and numerous Parade Of Homes distinctions. In 1976, at the age of 25, Tom purchased the 52 acre farm which formerly belonged to the Dayton Family of Dayton Hudson Corp. The Residential Development of Boulder Bridge still stands as on of Lake Minnetonka's most esteemed developments with a feature unique among Tom Wartman's developments which is that each of the 50 homesites has direct lake access via association grounds.