Wintergreen Site Management

About Wintergreen Site Management

The old rail line through West Bend carries walkers and bikes now as the Eisenbahn, and in the deep part of winter it lies out there under the streetlights as one long unbroken white ribbon, which is exactly the opposite of what a parking lot is supposed to look like at that hour. Wintergreen Site Management spends those nights making sure the lots and drives it handles are the other thing entirely — plowed wide, stacked out of the sightlines, walks opened and treated so the first shift of the morning can get from the car to the door without picking their way across glare ice. Snow in this county rarely arrives politely; it comes in on a northwest wind that keeps rearranging what has already been cleared, so the job is less a single pass than a long attentive night. When the ground finally thaws, the same properties change over to mowing and trimming, edges held tight to the curb lines and the islands kept from going ragged through August. It is a year-round arrangement in a place that demands both halves of it, and the measure of success is the same in either season — nobody arriving has to think about the ground under their feet.