Flowers for Sioux Falls, SD

Sioux Falls grew up around the quartzite falls of the Big Sioux, and the city still orients itself off that pink rock — from the storefronts on Phillips Avenue downtown to Falls Park a few blocks north. For a florist, the real map is different: it is Sanford USD Medical Center on the north end off Cliff Avenue, Avera McKennan out at 69th and Cliff, and the clinic corridor along Louise, all pulling steady get-well and new-baby deliveries from across eastern South Dakota, northwest Iowa, and southwest Minnesota. Downtown addresses and the older neighborhoods around McKennan Park are quick hops; the growth is on the outer ring, where subdivisions keep pushing east toward Brandon and south past 85th Street, and those newer streets are where most of the birthday and just-because orders now land.

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