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He owns some properties for rental income, and recently built a duplex, though he said a friend did about 95 percent of the work.
Seward also started up and operates an insulation business called Affordable Spray Foam.
Around 2015, one of his frequent pizza customers, the late Bob Kirlin, local real estate agent and community leader, convinced him to buy the former Harvest Moon Pizzeria building on Main Street in Nashville. Seward initially planned to move and expand the Pizza King restaurant there, but decided to launch a Brozinni Pizzeria instead after chatting with the owner of one in Greenwood who had a Brown County connection.
With support from his wife, Seward opened the new business. Brozinni meant a big step up in size from the Pizza King. The restaurant can seat about 100 and during the busy season has about 25 employees.
Seward still pursues other opportunities. His most recent venture involves flying.
Seward got a pilot’ s license two years ago and bought a four-seater 1968 Piper Arrow, on which he has gone on a couple of lunch trips, to Franklin. He uses it primarily, though, to take the family, including children Ellie, 10, and Emerson, 8, to Mobile, Alabama, where his parents would take the family on vacation, in part to visit the battleship USS Alabama, on which his grandfather, Charles R. Seward, served.
Seward said he got the“ entrepreneurial bug” probably from his father, who worked as a police officer but also owned a car wash in Delphi. His mom, Melinda Rossetter, worked in the athletics department at Purdue University.
But he’ s also quick to point out that lots of family, friends, and acquaintances in the Brown County community have provided a lot of help for which he is immensely grateful.
A local electrician he knew from working at Bear Hardware put probably about a thousand dollars’ worth of work into what would become the Pizza King restaurant.
When the electrician was done with the work, and Seward asked how much he owed, the electrician just said,“ Don’ t worry about it, kid. I’ m glad to help out a young entrepreneur,” Seward said, still visibly touched by the kindness.
In addition to the assistance he got from the Scrogginses, friends helped him remodel and paint the Pizza King restaurant, and his father-in-law and other family and friends helped remodel what would become Nashville’ s Brozinni Pizzeria.
For Seward, opening a restaurant was a huge undertaking, especially early on as a young man with little experience. The community’ s support played a vital role in his success.
He says this is a great place to live. •
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18 Our Brown County • Nov./ Dec. 2025