With more than $40 million in building permits issued in March, Rapid City’s construction boom has continued, and infrastructure projects also burgeoned in the first three months of the year.
Mayor Sam Kooiker’ quarterly progress report Wednesday, delivered in the second-floor council chambers of the downtown City-School Administration Center, highlighted what he called “robust” construction activity.
In March, building permit valuations topped out at roughly $40.5 million, marking only the third month since 2000 that permit totals have exceeded the $40-million mark, Kooiker said.
He said more big-ticket permits are on the horizon, with the recent announcement of a new $70 million Black Hills Corporation headquarters being built on south side of town along Highway 16.
“We’ve seen a very robust building permit season so far, and we know that there are a number of other large permits coming later this year,” Kooiker said.
Major permit valuations in March included roughly $14 million for an assisted-living facility, Village at Skyline Pines, at 1050 Fairmont Blvd.; nearly $5 million for the Good Samaritan senior housing complex at 4243 Wisconsin Ave.; and about $4.6 million for two 18-unit apartment complexes at 405 Founders Park Drive.
With about $32 million budgeted for infrastructure projects this year, Public Works Director Terry Wolterstorff said his department has been busy lining out street, utility and drainage projects.
“Business is brisk in the Public Works Department and our Engineering Division this year,” Wolterstorff said. “We have a lot of projects that we are getting out to bid and under contract.”
He said major projects include roughly $2.7 million in reconstructions of East Signal and Crescent drives, southeast of downtown on the hilltop just west of the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology campus.
Work is underway on the reconstructions, which are expected to be completed by late fall, city spokesman Darrell Shoemaker said.
Wolterstorff said the city is set to spend $2 million for water, sewer and drainage improvements on Silver Street, just west of Central High School, as part of a more than $20 million reconstruction of the Interstate 190 interchange by the Department of Transportation.
Shoemaker said the interchange rebuild is expected to go out to bid mid-July, with actual construction expected to be underway by the fall, taking some two years to complete.
The city has also entered into a $1.85 million contract to complete the fourth and final phase of a project to extend the city’s water main to the Rapid City Regional Airport. The project is expected to be completed by late fall.
The main extension will bolster water resources for fires at the airport, while allowing added development opportunities in the eastern stretches of town and Rapid Valley, Wolterstorff said.
He said about $2 million has been set aside for chip-and-seal and other road rehabilitation projects throughout Rapid City.
Roadways in the southwest Red Rocks area will get attention as well as Kansas City and Quincy and West Main streets.
“We really get a big bang for our buck with that ($2 million). We can do a lot of streets with those rehabilitation projects,” Wolterstorff said. “A lot of these are under contract already. Some of them we will be opening bids within a month.”
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