Lizzy Lift Moves to Historic Elmhurst, Ill., Building
Lizzy Lift, the women-owned specialty aerial and material handling equipment rental company, recently moved into its new office space in Elmhurst, Ill., in an old house the company bought that was built in the early 1900s. The Victorian-style home was built by a doctor and most recently belonged to a landscaping firm. The Lizzy Lift staff, now 16 people, creatively has found a way to utilize the space from the attic where the rental team works to the basement. The company, which has grown steadily since it was founded by sisters Liz Faruzzi and Jennifer Lombard, rents a variety of specialty machines such as 74-foot Reachmaster “tall boys” and a variety of Versa Lifts. Founded by Faruzzi and Lombard in one of Faruzzi’s children’s bedrooms in 1998, Lizzy Lift is now right on the edge of the RER 100, ranked No. 101 on the extended list.
Storing equipment in a variety of locations and often subrenting machine from other rental companies and renting to other rental companies including large players such as United Rentals and Sunbelt Rentals, Lizzy Lift supplies equipment to customers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico and select other international locations. In addition to aerial work platforms and forklifts, it provides a wide variety of construction equipment such as sweepers, cranes, generators, welders and supplies such as containers, dumpsters, storage units and more.
About the Author
Michael Roth
Editor
Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.