Smithfield Foods will meet with would-be neighbors of its proposed $1.3 billion pork processing plant in Sioux Falls later this month.
The Nov. 19 meeting will give residents an opportunity to ask questions of company representatives as Smithfield works to advance plans to replace its century-old downtown Sioux Falls plant with a new facility on the city’s northwest side.
“We look forward to sharing more details about our plans to build a new, modern facility to replace Smithfield's existing plant in downtown Sioux Falls, a facility that has played a central role in the regional economy for more than 100 years,” Jim Monroe, Smithfield's vice president of corporate affairs, wrote in a letter distributed to nearby property owners earlier this month, some of whom went to court earlier this year in hopes of blocking the city-approved plan to relocate slaughterhouse operations to the outskirts of town.
