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Good Samaritan Creekside Apartments now under construction A groundbreaking ceremony was held October 29 for a new $5.2 million affordable apartment building for seniors. The Creekside HUD Apartments will be a three-story wood frame structure with 59 one-bedroom apartments, featuring a community room, party kitchen, lounges and community laundries. The facility will serve persons 62 years of age and older who meet HUD eligibility guidelines. The planned completion date is August of 2008. Creekside is one of the newly approved affordable senior housing projects of the Good Samaritan Society. The new building will be located near Prairie Creek in southwest Sioux Falls near 57th Street and Solberg Avenue. Augustana breaks ground for new football stadium Ground was broken November 16 for the new 6,500 seat football-only Kirkeby-Over Stadium. The estimated cost of this project is $9 million and the architect is TKDA of St. Paul, specialists in stadium design. The planned completion date is October 4, 2008, for the Viking Days Homecoming game. Augustana College has been a member of the Sioux Falls community since 1918 and currently employs 400 individuals. The college enrolls approximately 1,800 students, and has a longstanding commitment to enhance the quality of life in the greater Sioux Falls area as well as to be recognized as the leader in private higher education in South Dakota and the region. ■ ■ ■ Iowa natives choose career opportunities in Sioux Falls Growing up in northwestern Iowa, Mark and Jodi Sohn were always familiar with Sioux Falls as the place to go for shopping, recreation and sporting events. But Sioux Falls drew their attention even more strongly, as the Iowa grads considered careers and their future as a married couple. “We had started to think about where we wanted to live,” said Mark Sohn, who works as a relationship representative for Wells Fargo Financial. “We looked at Des Moines and Minneapolis but decided that Sioux Falls would be best. It’s close to home and family, but offered opportunities in the careers we were trained for.” Both Mark, a marketing major from Buena Vista University, and Jodi, who trained as an x-ray technician, had internships with Sioux Falls businesses. Jodi started her post-secondary education at Sheldon Community College, but ended up at the USD Sanford Medical Center, completing her x-ray training there. Mark’s internship in Sioux Falls was with the Enterprise Institute, where he had an opportunity to become more familiar with the job options available in Sioux Falls. Jodi found her position first, at Sanford in Sioux Falls, and Mark accepted a job with Wells Fargo Financial here, after being offered a similar position in Des Jodi and Mark Sohn Moines. The couple married in June and is excited about the possibilities for job advancement in Sioux Falls. “There are great opportunities for our careers right here in Sioux Falls,” Jodi said. “We’re close enough to home that we can go back and see our families, but still have our own lives.” The Sohns currently live in an apartment in central Sioux Falls and have friends and family in town. They look forward to building their future here. Thanks to Forward Sioux Falls, young adults are finding opportunity in our community. Learn more at www.forwardsiouxfalls.com. Page 4 www.siouxfallsdevelopment.com
Sioux Falls Development Foundation Chairman’s Report By Dana Dykhouse Great reasons to celebrate Sioux Falls This is a community that deserves celebration, and the Development Foundation has led this celebration of Sioux Falls for over a half century. The business leaders who forged our organization believed in the future of Sioux Falls. They began a spirit of confidence and a can-do attitude that has made our growth in recent decades a continuation of a community tradition. And, twenty years ago, Forward Sioux Falls was begun, one of the goals of which has always been to celebrate our achievements and promote our community to the rest of the world. Our area’s economy is consistently recognized as one of the strongest in the nation. With our friends and colleagues in the surrounding communities of Lincoln and Minnehaha Counties, we create an environment that attracts new companies to our area and encourages the expansion of the well-established businesses growing right here. Once they get here, they realize, as we do, what a great place we’ve all chosen for our homes and businesses! Thanks to the leadership of people like our 2007 Spirit of Sioux Falls Award winner T. Denny Sanford, and retiring Development Foundation President Dan Scott, Sioux Falls has become a community that is attracting worldwide attention. We are drawing young people who choose to start their careers here and building on each year’s consistent economic growth. Our volunteer board of directors is proud of this community, and we are proud of their service to our organization. This year, Jim Wilcox, Mike Hanson and Terry Baloun are retiring from our board, and we will miss their enthusiasm and participation. Newly elected members are Bill Baker, Mark Mickelson and Tom Simmons. Congratulations, and thank you all! And our thanks to you for attending our annual meeting this year and for your support of our organization. We appreciate the kind words expressed at our meeting and anticipate another great year in 2008. ■ ■ ■ Small businesses survive best in South Dakota Small businesses matter to the U.S. economy, dominating the business landscape and creating the bulk of new jobs. The Small Business Survival Index ranks the 50 states and District of Columbia according to some of the major governmentimposed or government-related costs affecting investment, entrepreneurship, and business. The 2007 Index considers 31 major government-imposed or governmentrelated costs affecting small businesses and entrepreneurs. The measures are added together for an overall rating. For the sixth consecutive year, the Index ranked South Dakota as Number 1—the friendliest state for entrepreneurs and small businesses. New Jersey ranked 50th among states, DC was 51st. Small businesses have long been referred to as the engine of the national economy. Today they’re also providing the fuel. Forrester Research (forrester.com), a technology research firm in Cambridge, MA, found that in 2006 U.S. small businesses spent about $138 billion on technology products and services, accounting for 19% of all IT spending. And according to a 2005 study by Gartner, a technology consulting group in Stamford, CT, companies that employed 20 to 99 expected to increase their IT budgets by 7% in 2006—a figure that fell to just 2% among companies that employed 500 to 999. www.siouxfallsdevelopment.com Page 5
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