Sioux Falls | Development

[theserge]

Hey does anyone know whats being built on 26th and hwy 11, just south of Dawley Farm Village?

[Wolfmanfromsufu]

south of 26th? not sure. There's a new housing development at the southeast corner.

[sodak]

85th & Western may get mix of homes, offices, retail
$60M project creates a 'town square'

By Scott Carlson
sdcarlson@argusleader.com
Comment Print Email PUBLISHED: February 8, 2008
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Imagine being able to go to work and shop in the same neighborhood where you live.

That's what developers envision for 30-acre "mixed use" project called Three Fountain Plaza, which would be located at the southeast corner of West 85th Street and Western Avenue.

The estimated $60 million project would integrate commercial, office and residential land uses to create a kind of neighborhood "town square," according to its developers, Clayton Jamison and Bob Natz, principals at Sioux Falls-based Site2 Inc.

Site2's plan is the second "mixed use" development project to come up for city review. The Planning Commission this week recommended approval of Site2's preliminary land use plan and rezoning. The City Council should vote on the project by end of March.

Last November, the city approved its first "mixed use" plan, a 40-acre project at the northwest corner of Marion and Benson roads. It's part of the 160-acre Hazeltine development that would mostly consist of single-family homes.

The two projects represent an emerging trend.

"We hope these become the development of the future" said Jeff Schmitt, assistant city director of planning and building services. "We want to bring separate land uses together and make them work so that people can live and work and shop in the same area as opposed to living in one part of Sioux Falls, working in another part of town and shopping yet in a third part of town."

The Hazeltine project also aims to "create a community within our subdivision," said Steve Van Buskirk, company vice president.

Van Buskirk said the mixed-use component is intended to be a draw for the entire neighborhood, giving residents places to work and shop. "It is the new urbanism" he said.

But it's also putting developers and city officials into uncharted waters. Under "mixed use" zoning, developers say they have more flexibility to provide a creative solution to developing property.

"We are still in the process of defining what is mixed-use zoning," Jamison said.

In the case of Three Fountain Plaza, new city engineering standards for where street accesses to commercial property are located is driving the change to "mixed use" type of development, Natz said.

Historically, city rules allowed developers to put in accesses to commercial property 300 feet from an intersection, but now the minimum is a quarter-mile away from busy intersections.

Site2's challenge has been to design the project to minimize traffic driving past future residences to get to the commercial land use, Natz said.

Three Fountain Plaza is a part of Site2's 264-acre Prairie Hills development. About half of Three Fountain Plaza is earmarked for commercial uses.

If City Council approves the project, construction for roads and utilities could begin this summer, Natz said.

Reach Scott Carlson at 331-2318.

[NewDetroit1]

is the uptown at the falls project ever going to start construction?????



oh one more question is there any more news on the 18 story tower???????

[Justin_144]

Here are a few developments I found online today....







From what I can make out they will be adding Festival space, a Permanent Ice Rink, and a Farmers Market space.

http://www.siouxfalls.org/CityLink_1...28D8D4BEE.ashx

[Wolfmanfromsufu]

The north end of Main ave. needs a lot of fixing up. Thanks for the web link.

[Ex-Ithacan]

Gotta say that current pic of the Houwman is rather ugly. Glad to see the great looking proposal. You go Sioux Falls, keep on rolling.

[Wolfmanfromsufu]

What was the Houwman originally anyway? It looks like it could have been a simple theater.
With the northern Falls park design, where are people going to park during events there. The planned parking wont make up for the parking that use to be there, granted it was just an ugly open field.

[skate342]

Here's a bit larger shot of houwman.


wolfman, i've wondered if it used to be a theater also, but I'm not sure which it would have been. what a great improvement this new look will be.

newdetroit1, new construction for phase 1 of uptown starts this spring.

[cyberden]

The 14th St. and Phillips proposed building would be the most 'free-style' looking architecture n SF. Got to like the ambition...

[Magnus1]

Originally Posted by Justin_144

Here are a few developments I found online today....









http://www.siouxfalls.org/CityLink_1...28D8D4BEE.ashx

awesome link. thanks.
glad to see something is happening w/ the old video mania building.
there is a fun gaybar behind there my Girlfriend and i used to frequent for good house music.

My friends leased a garage in the NE corner of that N Main building (#4) and used trick out imports during the mid 90s! What a supprise to see that old brick dump come up here. It has huge potential and a view!



the river appears too blue in those pictures. the sew river is brown baby!
keep on keepin us informed guys. i really appreciate it!

[sodak]

City grows by 3 square miles
By Sioux Falls Business Journal
Friday, 29 February 2008
Sioux Falls grew by more than population last year.

The city also grew by 3 square miles in 2007 because of annexations.

Sioux Falls is now 70 square miles in size, according to the city’s Planning and Building Services.

In 2007, city government acted upon 33 annexation requests totaling 1,878 acres.

The annexed areas are scattered around the perimeter of Sioux Falls, with the heaviest concentration on the east side.

The city’s estimated population, at the end of 2007, was 151,300, according to the city planning office.

The estimated population of the four-county metropolitan statistical area is 230,000. The MSA includes Minnehaha, Lincoln, Turner and McCook counties.

[Justin_144]

What's for dinner? Doesn't Cheesecake Factory, Macaroni Grill, Space Aliens Bar and Grill sound good?

Those are just some of the restaurants that could open up in Sioux Falls now that the city will be allowed to issue more liquor licenses.

Governor Rounds signed a new law today that lets cities across the state approve as many on-sale liquor licenses as they want to certain restaurants.

In Sioux Falls the new licenses will cost more, but already restaurants groups are jumping at the chance to get in the market.

Now that the law has changed, Commercial Real Estate Agent Scott Blount has a restaurant group in town today looking for potential sites. While he won't name them yet, it's not the only client he has.

"We're talking probably mid-level chains, restaurant groups, a couple out of the Minneapolis area; a couple out of North Dakota area, that want to enter the Sioux Falls market. This is going to enable them to do that," Blount said.

Blount says the old system with it's limited number of licenses frustrated his clients when businesses sold their's on the open market at exorbitant prices.

"One time we dropped out at 197,500 and one time we dropped out at 207,500," Blount said. "The problem is you never knew how much you were going to have to pay for the liquor license and that seemed to bother them more than anything else. No one liked getting into the bidding process."

But in order to protect those businesses that have paid such high prices for their liquor licenses, the licenses in Sioux Falls will now be sold for $225,000 instead of $155,000 a piece.

"They've changed the law, but it's still not an easy thing. It's still very expensive," Blount said.

Any business willing to pay the expense cannot allow smoking. Blout says that won't be a problem.

"A couple of our more well known restaurants in Sioux Falls have already banned smoking anyway. I think that's kind of the wave of the future," Blount said.

A future with more eating choices, more jobs and more money coming into town.

"It's legislation that will enable us to grow the economic base of Sioux Falls, which is the most important thing," Blount said.

Blount expects to see many new restaurants locating in the Dawley Farms Village development, where construction is currently underway.

Businesses that qualify for the new licenses cannot get anymore than 40 percent of their gross profits from alcoholic drinks.




Angela Kennecke
© 2008 KELOLAND TV. All Rights Reserved.

[sodak]

Boardings up at Sioux Falls airport
Staff Reports • Argus Leader • March 15, 2008

The Sioux Falls Regional Airport posted another gain in boardings in February.

Last month, 31,854 passengers boarded planes from the airport. That's up 14 percent from February 2007, which had 27,835.

When compensating for the 29-day month, boardings were up 8 percent from February 2007.


Planes are flying full of passengers, said Mike Marnach, the airport's executive director.

United's flights to Denver are averaging 75 percent full. Delta's Atlanta flights are 70 percent full. Northwest's flights to Minneapolis are 80 percent full, and Allegiant's flights to Orlando, Las Vegas and Phoenix-Mesa are a combined 90 percent full.

[sodak]

New estimates from the Census Bureau show both a significant increase and adjustment in the metro area's population.

2000: 187,093
2007: 227,171

Net increase of 40,087 or 21.42%. In addition, Lincoln County has been the 8th fastest growing county in the country since 2000, with an increase of 56.40%.

Sioux Falls can lay claim once again to being the fastest growing metro area outside the south and west. Granted that is easier to do when you start with a smaller population base. Omaha, Des Moines and others still far outpace Sioux Falls' net numerical increase.

[sodak]

Also, Forbes just released it's annual list of Best Places for Business and Careers. In the small metro category, Sioux Falls is first again. The Midwest is well represented, for reasons we all know.

1. Sioux Falls, SD
2. Iowa City, IA
3. Bloomington, IN
4. Colombia, MO
5. Bismarck, ND
6. Morgantown, WV
7. Rapid City, SD
8. Greenville, NC
9. Charlottesville, VA
10. Blacksburg, VA

[Wolfmanfromsufu]

South Dakota has 2 cities in the top 10, not bad.

[NanoBison]

Congrats to Sioux Falls and the midwest, the greatest part of the country to live in....

However, I'd like to know the exact way they make these calculations. I was looking at Fargo (#11) and the cost of living and cost of doing business seemed to increase a great deal from the previous year and the income growth really dropped from the previous year, yet I'm not aware of anything in the metro that had caused this... seems funny to me....

[F-Misthebest]

Yeah, and we were like number three last year.

[sodak]

Of course these lists are subjective. Nevertheless, its pretty good publicity. And this is the fifth year in a row Sioux Falls has been ranked number 1. The consistency helps with relevancy.

Still though, if you are in the top 10 or 15 year after year, I'm not sure there would be that much difference between no. 1 or no. 10 considering hundereds of cities are ranked.