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The communities that span the I-29 Corridor in eastern South Dakota from North Sioux City to Watertown and west to Yankton and Madison have joined forces, through a newly created I-29 Corridor Task Force, to craft a plan to identify and act on collaborative opportunities to grow their whole region and to build the capacity to sustain this growth.

This report, prepared by Regional Technology Strategies (RTS) of Carrboro, North Carolina under contract to the I-29 Corridor Task Force offers a strategic plan that fuses three overlapping economic development dimensions.

1. The plan seeks to parley existing and emerging private sector strengths into more jobs, more income and more wealth in I-29 Corridor communities.


2. The plan advances a strategy to build and support the research enterprise and educational assets within the region’s university and post secondary education and training communities and link them to the private sector as economic development drivers.


3. The plan recommends initiatives and actions to retain and attract higher education and post-secondary graduates and their knowledge and skills as the foundation for the region’s future growth and prosperity.

The purpose is to produce more high quality jobs throughout the region, more wealth in the I-29 Corridor communities, and more economic opportunity for all of the region’s citizens. The most direct route to these goals are to build and exercise the capacity to engage in higher value (and higher wage and earnings) commerce.