The Yakima Downtown Plaza plan moves back into center stage on Monday when designer Catherine Gustafson presents the updated design. You are invited to the Seasons Performance Hall on North Naches at 6:30 for a public presentation and discussion.

As Yakima moves forward with its project, other cities are in the process of developing plazas of their own. Casper, Wyoming is working on the possibility of a plaza and they looked to the successful Main Street Square in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Friday on the Morning News we spoke with Megan Whitman, the Executive Director of the Main Street Square in Rapid City.  From what she said it sounds like Rapid City’s early growing plaza pains mirror Yakima’s in many ways but as she told us they pushed through and now they have a success story to tell beyond their greatest expectation.

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