Westman

Reweaving Westman: A Region Rises Through Shared Development

In Brandon and surrounding communities, a grassroots regional strategy has knit together housing, business incubation, and climate-smart infrastructure. Residents, elders, and planners measure progress in new storefronts, jobs created, and revived public life.

Westman

Remaking Main Street: One Entrepreneur’s Quiet Prairie Experiment

Asha Patel transformed a tired downtown warehouse into Prairie Foundry, an incubator and mixed‑use anchor that has created jobs, trained local youth, and seeded agri‑technology startups across Westman.