There's quite a mess in downtown Sioux Falls. Crews have been knocking down the old Acme nightclub. But the rubble relates to progress with a city project. All of the noise associated with the demolition will soon make room for the expansion of one of the quietest places in downtown Sioux Falls.
“What this is going to be is when they're done taking down the old Acme building, this will be a parking lot yet this fall,” Huber said.
The new parking lot will replace spaces that will be built over to expand the Main Library. Tuesday, crews were busy making space for the 18,000 square-foot addition.
“We had to disconnect the electricity, the water, the sewer. All of that had to be capped off. We've been working on this for two months, getting ready for this day,” Huber said.
Galynn Huber with the Sioux Falls Street Department says the city decided to do the demolition with its own crews to save money.
“That thing is just like his arm, he just moves it and can knock stuff down. There's a chunk of wall by that utility role he just moved it and knocked it down, he does a good job,” Huber said.
Huber says it will take two days to tear down the building. Truckload after truckload, it will be hauled to the landfill.
“By the end of next week it should be a flat piece of ground here,” Huber said.
Then, a new surface parking lot will be created, so that next year, renovation of the library can begin. The former Acme nightclub on Main Avenue downtown was originally built in 1917 as a grocery store.
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