Sioux Falls: Midwest's Fastest Growing Metro - Page 30

theserge · #**581** Posted: **Jun 29, 2011, 10:00 PM**

New renderings have been released for the next project in the Uptown at Falls Park development.

The DeKalb building at 522 N. Main Ave. will be demolished and replaced with a four-story building for loft apartments.

Lloyd Cos. is developing the lofts and hopes construction gets under way this fall.

The main level will have 8,000 square feet of office or retail space, and developers have secured an office tenant for half of it. The upper floors will house 36 lofts, including 24 two-bedroom units with decks that range between 1,200 and 1,400 square feet.

The project also will include 50 underground parking spaces.

From: www.siouxfallsbusinessjournal.com

Wolfmanfromsufu · #**582** Posted: **Nov 9, 2011, 4:18 AM**

58.08% vote in favor of the new events center!
http://keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=123322
(I got the 58.08% number from the city website, but I didn't know if the page there was permanent so I linked a story from a local tv station)
I'm glad that this passed. I would have liked to see this build downtown, but I'm just glad to see it finally built.

Boomer · #**583** Posted: **Jan 25, 2012, 2:24 AM**

So, we are verge of losing $35 million in federal funding to relocate the downtown railroad tracks to make way for commercial development? Frankly, I cannot believe this is not a front page story titled "Epic Failure." Frustrating. Anyone know when this funding was approved? I know moving railroad tracks is no small endeavor, but $35M might be some incentive to throw some significant resources at it. Damn, $35 million.

Wolfmanfromsufu · #**584** Posted: **Jun 10, 2012, 7:39 PM**

They've officially opened the first phase of the riverwalk in downtown.
The ribbon cutting

An overview of the area. Cherapa Place is the building to the right.

There are a lot of good things going on. The Lumber Exchange (CNA) building just opened up. The next door Hilton Garden Inn is planned to start soon. A couple apartment buildings are planned in the uptown area of North Main.

Boomer · #**585** Posted: **Jul 14, 2012, 2:48 AM**

I like the direction the "river walk" is going. I thought I heard the intent was to bring it all the way to Fawick park. That would be very impressive.

Wolfmanfromsufu · #**586** Posted: **Jul 24, 2012, 4:07 AM**

That's the plan. The next phase is the section South of there where the Lumber Exchange (CNA) building and future hotel is. There's diagrams of the whole plan in the lobby of Cherapa Place.

theserge · #**587** Posted: **Aug 15, 2012, 10:01 PM**

Looks like sanford is going to build a hotel next to their new "Pentagon" sports complex. I'm thinking that this will be a very nice retail area in the next few years...
http://siouxfallsbusinessjournal.arg...-near-Pentagon

Brian77 · #**588** Posted: **Sep 7, 2012, 7:05 PM**

Here are renderings for three projects that are planned for downtown. All article and rendering credits go to Sioux Falls Business Journal.

New riverfront Garden Inn:

New images of the future Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Sioux Falls along the Big Sioux River show the five-story hotel will tie in closely to the developing riverfront. A groundbreaking on the five-story hotel and conference center is planned for 11:30 a.m. Sept. 12.

Loft apartments near City Hall:

A new five-story building of loft apartments is planned for downtown across Dakota Avenue from City Hall. Legacy Development and Consulting, which also worked on lofts at the Security Building and as part of the Uptown project, has property under contract at 115 and 117 N. Dakota Ave.

Townhouse Square on Phillips Ave:

Developer Don Dunham wants to move forward with plans for downtown condominiums, and initial meetings with future homeowners showed so much interest, the building might be bigger than originally thought.
Dunham is calling the project Townhouse Square. It would be on a city-owned parking lot on Phillips Avenue between 12th and 13th streets.
“The top four floors are already pre-sold,” Dunham said. “And we’ve talked about going up one more floor. This (revised) plan also has underground parking, so we won’t need ramp parking.”

Also I read about another residential building planned for the area around the downtown Sunshine Foods, but I could not find any renderings for that.

Brian77 · #**589** Posted: **Sep 20, 2012, 3:02 PM**

Credit: Sioux Falls Business Journal

Sioux Falls trails only Omaha in building activity so far this year, according to a comparison done by the city with several regional communities.

Through August, Sioux Falls permitted $300.5 million in construction projects. That’s behind Omaha’s $395.6 million, but ahead of Des Moines at $184 million and Fargo at $188 million.

Sioux Falls also has permitted 867 total housing units, also second only to Omaha with 1,330 housing units. Des Moines has permitted 265 units, and Fargo has done 663 units.

Brian77 · #**590** Posted: **Mar 1, 2013, 9:51 PM**

Credit:Sioux Falls Business Journal

Dick's Sporting Goods has filed for an initial $4 million building permit to put a store at The Empire Mall.

Dick's is a full-line sporting goods retailer offering brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear.

"Unfortunately, we don't have any information to share at this time," said Jennifer Morrison, the mall's director of marketing and business development. That's what mall executives typically say until a lease is signed.

As of Oct. 27, 2012, the company operated 511 Dick's Sporting Goods stores in 44 states.

It was founded in 1948 in Binghamton, N.Y., and now is a publicly traded company.

Check back at sfbj.com for updates on when the store will open and where it will be in the mall.