Business leaders look to cook up Billings version of Sioux Falls’ success

A month after an aspirational visit to Sioux Falls, S.D., participants’ minds are still working through the takeaways — and formulating possible next steps — based on what they saw during an extensive three-day tour of South Dakota’s largest city.

At least one traveler uses culinary terms to describe the visit. Steve Arveschoug, executive director of the Big Sky Economic Development Authority and Economic Development Corporation, has devised a recipe for whipping up a batch of the "secret sauce," the culinary formula that Sioux Falls leaders used repeatedly to refer to the ingredients contributing to their city’s solid growth and impressive infrastructure and amenities.

By Mike Ferguson

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