Whelp, you’ve got a few more days.
We’re extending this year’s deadline for our Readers Choice Awards. The new cutoff date is 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26.
To date, we’ve received nearly 300 completed ballots, and that’s about the yearly average.
Plus, more than 700 readers have visited the contest’s link at our Web site, www.siouxfallsbusinessjournal
.com, presumably to at least check it out.
With such curiosity levels, we’re hoping that by extending the contest one more week we might entice a few more readers to move from the “checking it out” category to becoming contest participants.
Simply put, we value your input.
The Readers Choice Awards allow readers to recognize companies that are connecting well with their customers. It’s a chance for your voice to be heard about which businesses and professionals you believe offer top-quality products and services.
And no one can speak better about your choices than you.
We’ll publish the list of winners in the Nov. 21 issue. Winners also will receive certificates.
There’s a printed ballot on page 25 of this week’s issue, and you also can vote online.
For those 300 or so readers who already have cast your votes, thanks.
And stay tuned. For soon, you’ll be hearing us say: “And the winners are ...”
The Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce continues to break out of the mold of “business as usual” for its annual meetings.
Last year’s gathering offered a full-fledged, production-like feel with an original song, dancers, staged simulation of Falls Park and a videotaped skit.
This year, the chamber continued its foray into glammed-up presentations. Soft dinner music, more video presentations and a surprise guest performance.
HenkinSchultz Communication Arts produced the show.
At this rate, the chamber only needs to secure a Hollywood celebrity’s appearance to complete the package. I vote for Denzel Washington.
For more about the meeting’s non-traditional highlights, check out Rob Swenson’s Business Buzz column on page 3. I’ve been reading with great interest recent stories about results to a poll sponsored by the Business Journal’s sister publication, the Argus Leader.
The Argus survey asked area residents their opinions on a variety of topics including traffic.
It seems that most residents want officials to restart exploring whether creating an east-west corridor through the central part of the city is possible.
The perennial thorn in city planners’ sides keeps growing as a sore spot for residents, too, as the city expands east and west.
For four years, I’ve occasionally asked a variety of city officials about whether a central east-west corridor will materialize.
The general response – in one form or another – is: Nope.
It’s too thorny. It’s too expensive. It’s basically too late.
Instead, officials continually point to plans of creating a perimeter corridor and growth of east-side retail as more likely methods of shuttling residents around the city.
To other fans of a central artery, I’m sorry to say that it’s time for us to, well, move on.
Apparently, our dream road is now just as likely to appear as Denzel Washington showing up for a Sioux Falls chamber meeting.
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