This piece is sponsored by Sioux Metro Growth Alliance.
More than 70 acres of former wastewater lagoon property is set to become a new destination entry point into the community of Hartford.
The new nonprofit Gateway Hartford Inc. has been formed by five local business and community leaders to facilitate the cleanup and future use of the former lagoon site, which is part of a roughly 158-acre area between 464th and Western avenues along Interstate 90.
The Hartford City Council recently voted to transfer the former lagoons to Gateway Hartford. The lagoons are no longer needed after the community opened its new mechanical wastewater treatment plant…