This piece is sponsored by Downtown Sioux Falls Inc.
As a new college graduate, Tessa Sanchez loved the idea of living in downtown Sioux Falls — but wasn’t sure if her budget would too.
“I wanted a place with a lot of charm, and I love downtown, but a lot of places were too expensive to live on my own,” said Sanchez, who graduated two years ago from South Dakota State University.
It turned out, downtown not only was budget-friendly enough for her first apartment — a brownstone on Phillips Avenue — but her next one, too, as she and new husband Esteban moved to the Third Avenue Lofts last year…