May 4, 2023

A Minnesota-based handmade and vintage decor store is expanding to Sioux Falls with a location on the east side of downtown near the proposed Riverline District.

Kristy Vander Ziel is opening a second location of Edgerton-based Farmhouse Market, which she owns with her husband, Phil.

The shop had a booth at I-29 Antiques for seven years and then moved to Stacey’s Vintage-Art-Boutique near Tea.

“And then we were doing shows around the area, and we just really grew our customer base in Sioux Falls,” she said.

They found a location at 121 S. Franklin Ave. in a building renovated by law partners Rhonda Lockwood and Tressa Zahrbock Kool.

“It is so beautiful,” Vander Ziel said. “I look forward to working with other small businesses in Sioux Falls to do maybe a shop hop or something like that, or just getting a coffee or food truck in the parking lot for events we have.”

Farmhouse Market began out of her garage in 2015 and expanded to a storefront in 2018. It specializes in vintage and new home decor, plus offers its own paint line, Farmhouse Market Furniture Paint.

“My husband does all the furniture painting and refinishing of furniture in the store, “she said. “And then I’m more putting the store together. I order in new, I source vintage stuff and mix it all together.”

In her Sioux Falls store, as in Minnesota, she plans to offer items from other makers, including At Home With Stella, Barn Home Vintage, Brick House Creations, Boards n’ Boys and Mitzi’s Pretties.

“We’ve become good friends, and they’re my tribe, so I definitely want to bring them with me doing this,” she said.

The plan is to open by mid-August.

Lockwood & Zahrbock Kool Law Office PC already has moved into its renovated space.

“It’s beautiful. We love it,” Lockwood said. “I can’t wait for the outside to be done because it will make the biggest change I think.”

The all-brick exterior will have wood slatting on part of the front and large linear lights down the boardwalk with a large black metal wrap-around sign to give it a more modern look, she said.

The law office has grown to five attorneys, three paralegals, a legal assistant and office manager.

“When we did this, we said we wanted it to look like a gateway to downtown,” Lockwood said. “We knew eventually downtown would have to come our way because there’s nowhere else to go.”

They didn’t anticipate the proposed Riverline District, however, which now could go right across East 10th Street from their building.

Their building still has a space available that “has a funky edge to it with a glass roll-up garage door,” Lockwood said. “We’ve had distilleries and breweries reaching out, which would be great. Or a restaurant or sandwich-type (business).”

The end cap space is about 2,400 square feet, and it includes exposed brick, walls of windows and the garage door leading to a future deck and grassy area, said Isaac Jorgensen of Bender Commercial Real Estate Services, who has the space listed.

“We have had a number of interested parties, from craft distilleries and breweries to an art studio and some various office users,” he said. “With Farmhouse Market going in next door, the space would make an awesome home for a business serving some food and drinks, but it could also be a beautiful office or creative space for a company.”

There’s also a quonset hut near the river with 2,500 square feet of heated flex space available for rent with a new concrete driveway leading to the hut, which will have a new garage door, insulation and heater.

“We’ve had interest from a variety of users, some looking to run their business here, and others looking for storage/shop space right next to downtown,” Jorgensen said.

Whoever leases the space could benefit from the Riverline District as it takes shape — an “extremely exciting” prospect, Lockwood said. “It makes you go, this landscape will probably look extremely different in the next five years.”