It didn’t take long after the announcement that Smithfield Foods would vacate its century-old downtown site for the industry’s most modern pork plant in northwest Sioux Falls for phones to start ringing in the Whittier Neighborhood.
Some of the calls were neighbors wondering what this would mean for the area they call home.
But some calls were from strangers with a question: Do you want to sell your house?
The announcement and the phone calls have led to what Whittier Neighborhood president Lim Bun has described as “nervous excitement,” with people wondering what the future will hold when the area’s largest employer moves away…