What eventually became the Pitsch Wrecking (Capitol Wrecking Co.) company was started in 1958, when Loren Pitsch Sr. and another General Motors employee formed a demolition company, after hours, which cleared the homes demolished for the construction of highway U.S. 131. In 1962 Pitsch began working full time at demolition, turning the business into a multi-faceted $15 million dollar business by the time of his death in 2003. The nine separate corporations existing under the Pitsch umbrella at the time of Loren Pitsch's death included hauling, property management and a salvage store for disposal of materials obtained through the wrecking operations.

Loren Pitsch, Sr. (d. 2003) attended Byron Center High School and graduated from Davenport College. He served as an electrician in the Navy from 1945 to 1947. He was a tool and die worker at the General Motors Corporation plant here for a number of years. He married Arlene and they had eight children. Son Dale died in 1997 in an airplane crash. The other children are Kathleen Young; Laura; Lewis; Gloria; Loren, Jr.; Steven and Gary. Many of the Pitsch family members have worked for the family company for a number of years. Son Gary Pitsch heads the Pitsch Recyling and Disposal unit of the company. Loren senior retired from the company in 1985 and built a retirement home at Barlow Lake in 1993.