The people who sold Corona Landscape are from Pincher Creek, Alberta. The people who bought it grew up in a city not far from there.
Jaden Sittler says that is how the sale came together. He and his wife, Kenzie, were looking at a landscaping business for sale in the southern United States, and its owners turned out to be from a town near their own. “Kind of the stars aligned,” he says. The couple flew down, met the sellers in person and went through the steps of acquiring the company. They took over in 2026 and own it 50-50.
What they bought is a lawn maintenance company with a long memory. Sittler says a Gilbert man started it around 2002 with one other worker and a single mower. A second set of owners built it into what it is today. The Sittlers are the third.
Most of the work is on business properties, about 70 percent commercial to 30 percent residential, a mix Sittler calls healthy. The company has seven employees running a few different crews across the East Valley, from Gilbert and Chandler to Tempe, Mesa, Ahwatukee and Queen Creek. The routine is the one its service pages spell out: mowing, trimming, edging, pruning, blowing and sweeping, along with adjusting irrigation timers as the seasons change.
The commercial side shapes how Sittler talks about the job. The clients he describes own several properties, with tenants inside and patrons walking up to the door. “They need a clean frontage on their property,” he says, and they need it on a schedule they can count on. He says the same thing keeps coming back from those clients when they explain why they moved over. “We’ve tried other companies and we switched, and you guys show up on time,” is how he relays it.
He puts the pitch in terms of who answers the phone. “It’s a mom and pop owned operation,” he says. “We’ll pick up, we’ll answer your calls, and we’ll show up on time.”
He does not oversell the rest. “What we lack in size we make up in quality work and honesty and just being there on time,” he says. He treats punctuality as the floor, not a selling point. “If we can’t show up on time or we can’t put in a good effort on your property, then there’s no point in getting our services.”
The Sittlers also have a view on which work to pursue. Corona Landscape’s service list still includes installation, from turf and rock to trees, pavers and low-voltage lighting. Sittler says the work he wants more of is the steady side, the trimming, blowing and mowing, rather than hardscape and construction. He talks about building the company into a bigger operation.
For now, the couple is running a business whose oldest relationships predate them by more than two decades, and Sittler does not pretend otherwise.
“We still have clients that we service from 2002,” he says, “and obviously we weren’t the owners back then.”