Jodi Schwan

1 week ago | siouxfalls.business | Jodi Schwan

May 5, 2025As a small startup, The Yard Barbers found plenty of early demand for its residential and commercial landscaping services. But a few years after starting the business more than a decade ago, it became clear that labor would be a barrier to growth. “It’s pretty challenging. The Sioux Falls market is very tough to recruit a lot of people in a short time,” said Brady Berke, who owns the business with his brothers, Bo and Blake.

1 week ago | siouxfalls.business | Jodi Schwan

May 4, 2025$1 billion doesn’t buy what it used to buy. It’s kind of like how a $1 million house, while still quite nice, of course, isn’t the million-dollar home of 20 years ago or even a decade ago. So when I heard a new South Dakota men’s prison — proposed for a rural site in Lincoln County on undeveloped land that would require infrastructure — would cost an estimated $825 million, I didn’t have quite the same sticker shock that our legislators did.

2 weeks ago | siouxfalls.business | Jodi Schwan

May 1, 2025The Sioux Falls Zoo & Aquarium has taken a big step forward in its plan to build an aquarium and butterfly rain forest. The We Can’t Wait campaign, a five-month Community Appeals effort endorsed by the Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce, raised more than $2.35 million, far exceeding its goal of $1.3 million and even the stretch goal of $2 million.

2 weeks ago | siouxfalls.business | Jodi Schwan

April 28, 2025Ten sites have been proposed as an alternative location for the relocation of the South Dakota men’s prison — including several new ones in and around Sioux Falls. Proposals will be reviewed Tuesday by a 22-person Project Prison Reset task force established by Gov. Larry Rhoden to study alternative sites to property between Harrisburg and Canton where an $825 million prison was proposed. I-90 and I-29 exchangeListed by Assam Cos., the 120.5-acre property at 5840 N. Career Ave.

2 weeks ago | siouxfalls.business | Jodi Schwan

Micah Aberson succeeds Scott Lawrence as CEO of L&S April 28, 2025Call it a full-circle career moment: Micah Aberson, who began as an intern at L&S, is now the advertising and marketing agency’s new CEO.