Sept. 10, 2024

This week’s Up-and-Comer is Ty Wiley, business manager of Save Our Space. He also works with family businesses Sioux Falls Kitchen & Bath, Wiley Painting and Crown Caseworks.

Name: Ty Wiley

Age: 29

Hometown: Sioux Falls

What brought you to Sioux Falls?

I was born and raised here. I went to college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and came back to work in the family businesses.

What keeps you in Sioux Falls?

Being able to be around family, friends and living in a great community my wife and I can raise our kids in.

What’s your favorite thing about your job?

Working with so many good people internally within our business, as well as externally with great contractors, customers and friends.

How did you get connected to your industry?

My dad, Bart, started a painting business when I was very young, and it has evolved into a few different businesses. Seeing his example, all I ever wanted to do was work for him and with him in any capacity.

Describe your workplace in three words.

Efficient, evolving, genuine.

What is something someone might be surprised to learn about you?

My lowest round of golf ever was a 12 under par, July of 2004 at Thunder Road.

What’s your favorite way to give back to your community?

I have always loved sneakers and have collected far too many. The last couple of years, donating shoes to a couple of local schools has been a fun and fulfilling experience.

What’s one business you’d like to see in Sioux Falls that isn’t here now?

Trader Joe’s. My wife has asked me monthly for the last seven years since she has moved here when Sioux Falls would be getting one. I’d like to stop saying “probably sometime soon.”

If you had $1 million to start a business, what kind of business would it be?

I would start a business geared towards helping people in the Sioux Falls community who cannot afford insulin and other medical supplies associated with Type 1 diabetes. My older sister Ashley and I have lived with diabetes for 20-plus years and have experienced the frustrations with rising costs, availability of medications, as well as resources. A business that can help provide those resources, advice for new diabetics and their parents as well as financial aid for medications would be a big dream of mine.