FORT PIERRE — How do you like your pork chop? Well, in Fort Pierre, your pork chop could be grassy with educational and recreational opportunities for visitors and residents alike. The Porkchop is a strip of land from the Missouri River to Yellowstone Street in Fort Pierre that will expand with the addition of the new John Waldron Memorial Bridge. City Council members got the first look Monday night of what a one-point-nine million dollar Economic Development Administration grant could be used for…
Steve Watson with I-S-G says the project could be transformational for Fort Pierre. Rhea Waldman with the South Dakota Discovery Center helped write the grant and says the grant was a part of looking at the future of the Discovery Center…
Officials with the Discovery Center are only in the beginning phases of looking at the future of the facility and placement in the Porkchop is only one suggestion. Finance Officer Roxanne Heezen says the engineering costs for the project are around 172-thousand dollars…
Money Fort Pierre has already budgeted for construction of the bridge plaza under the new Waldron Bridge is included in the match needed for the E-D-A grant.
