Plans materializing for Woster Plaza, Stockyards Ag Experience

Janelle Atyeo
Mar 1, 2025
Mar 1, 2025

Stockyards Soiree 1 - Woster Plaza.jpg — A rendering for Woster Plaza and the future Stockyards Ag Experience museum shows what the area would look like across the street from the current museum at The Falls. Groundbreaking is planned for 2027.
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Guests at the Stockyards Soirée fundraiser got the first glance at what the future Stockyards Ag Experience museum and Woster Plaza will look like.

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Stockyards Soiree 2.jpg — Stockyards Ag Experience Executive Director Abby Bischoff takes donations from the crowd at the Stockyards Soiree fundraiser Feb. 20.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Janelle Atyeo

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Janelle Atyeo is a small town South Dakota girl enjoying her work as regional editor of the Midwest Messenger and Tri-State Neighbor while raising kids and no-till vegetables in central Sioux Falls. Reach her at janelle.atyeo@lee.net.