Tag: Elevate Rapid city
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Northrop Grumman Lands in Rapid City’s Innovation District
Rapid City SD- Records show Elevate Rapid City had already set up a home for its next tenant before it told the public who that tenant was. On September 17, the organization quietly filed Articles of Organization for a new LLC — DLAB Holdings, LLC. Six days later, on September 23, Governor Larry Rhoden’s office,…
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Preview: Rapid City Zoning Board/ Planning Commission – Sept. 24, 2026
Rapid City SD – Thursday’s Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission meeting opens with a stack of routine paperwork — a homeowner just trying to close a sale, a park that needs the right zoning label, a garage bigger than most studio apartments. But buried in the consent calendar, three items down, a familiar…
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Rapid City Planning Commission Delays Vote on New Data Center Rules After Fractured Hearing
Rapid City SD – An ordinance rewriting how Rapid City regulates data centers — capping their water use, banning the largest of them outright, and imposing new noise and cooling standards — was supposed to get a recommendation from the Planning Commission on Sept. 10. Instead, after roughly an hour and a half of public…
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Sanford Bought the Microphone- Paying for its own Q&A about its own Deal
Rapid City SD- On August 13, Mayor Jason Salamun sat on a stage at an Elevate Rapid City luncheon, one of several panelists arranged across a small riser, answering questions about the Indoor Sports Complex rising off Mall Drive. Also on the panel: Domico Rodriguez, executive director of the Rapid City Sports Commission. Caleb Arceneaux,…
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Same Land, New Ribbon: What Today’s Press Release Left Out Regarding the Elevate Business Park
Correction, Aug 5 2026: This piece originally stated that 24020 Hardesty Road has served as Hills Construction, Ltd.’s registered office “since 1995.” State filings show the company’s registered office moved away from that address in 2008–2009 and has not returned there since, most recently relocating to Keystone in 2026. The piece also described the paper…
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Twins From the Start: What the TIF Ledger Actually Shows About the Catalyst District
Rapid City SD – Mayor Jason Salamun’s office marked this week’s “five key agreements” announcement with a Facebook post declaring the Indoor Sports Complex “a win for our community and the next generation.” It’s a good press release. It’s also a good moment to check the underlying paperwork — because the city’s own Tax Increment…
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Rapid City: Your Scouting Report for the July 6th City Council Meeting
Rapid City S.D. City council doesn’t get a pre-game show. It doesn’t get a hype video. But Monday’s agenda has more moving parts than a playoff game—a roster reset, a final buzzer on a months-long investigation, a brand-new zoning playbook opening up, and 40-some routine items running underneath it all. Think of this as your…
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A Developer, A TIF, and A Landowner – A Rapid City Zoning Tale
Paul E. Evans didn’t mince words.On June 18, one week before the Rapid City Planning Commission was scheduled to consider five simultaneous rezoning requests covering 127.95 acres of undeveloped land north of Mall Drive, Evans — president of McMahon Investment Inc. — filed a formal written protest with the City’s Department of Community Development. It…