Metropolitan Closets founder, Phil Lemke, began working with closet organization products in 1992 while running a successful solid surface countertop business. Beginning first with installation for some of his customers, he eventually began to sell organizers as part of his product offering. This continued until 2004. Realizing that there was a great need for custom solutions to storage issues that was not being met,the decision was made to beginmanufacturing storage products under the name Metropolitan Closets. Since then, the company has expanded three times and currently works with state of the art equipment in a facility twelve times larger than its original building.At present, Metropolitan Closets Inc. sells to a small retail area near its facility and through dealers outside of its territory. more... See more text