RAPID CITY, SD—The City issued 223 building permits in April with a combined valuation of more than $41.6 million. The valuation total was the second-highest total ever recorded for Rapid City for the month of April.
The City has issued 719 building permits for the January through April period, with a combined valuation total of more than $99.5 million. The April valuation total is the second-highest valuation total recorded for the fourth month of the year, surpassed only by $55 million valuation total recorded in April 2021. In April 2012, the City’s permit valuation for the month was more than $40.3 million.
Included in last month’s permit total, 20 permits were issued for construction of single family homes, bringing the total to 74 permits issued in the classification for the first four months of the year. By comparison, only 40 permits for single family homes were issued during the same period last year.
“We continue to see very solid numbers in permits issued for single family homes in the community,” said Community Development Director Vicki Fisher. “We haven’t seen this level of activity for single family homes in a few years and we are on pace for numbers that have only been seen during a brief two-year period during the past nearly two decades.”
Eight permits were issued with valuation totals over one million each. The top-valued permit was issued to Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. with Furst Construction as contractor for $8.18 million for the facility at 2110 Dyess Avenue. A permit valued at more than $4.84 million was issued to Wal-Mart Real Estate with Engineered Structures, Inc. as contractor for remodel and addition to the facility at 100 Stumer Road. A permit valued at more than $3.86 million was issued to Big D Oil Company with Scull Construction, Inc. as contractor for the facility at 1951 Moon Meadows Drive.
Four permits – two valued at more than $1.96 million each and two valued at $1.27 million each – were issued to Shepherd Hills Commons Phase II with Signature Companies LLC as contractor. The permits were issued for two 11-unit and two 8-unit apartment complexes on Anamosa Street. A permit valued at more than $1.03 million was issued to the Rapid City Area School District with Scull Construction Service, Inc. as contractor for the upgrades to Rapid City Central High School.
