July 12, 2022

Here’s a look at recent changes in the business landscape in the Sioux Falls area.

Sanford Health’s sports medicine department has moved into one of two new floors that have been added to the Van Demark Building on the Sanford USD Medical Center campus. The new area on the third floor has 20 exam rooms, two X-ray rooms and five cast rooms. There’s also designated space for research trials, orthobiologics and a 3D printer. The fourth floor is shell space for future growth. The Sanford Orthopedic Fast Track clinic also was moved to the ground floor from the lower level, making it more accessible to patients.

The city’s first gourmet soda shop has opened, bringing drinks that are popular in the West to the Midwest. SoDak Soda, along 85th Street west of Western Avenue, features Coke and Pepsi fountain drinks, waters and energy drinks that are customized with flavored syrups, fruit purees and creams. It also serves sweet and savory snacks. It’s open Monday through Saturday.

Women’s clothing store Step-N-Style has opened at 1524 S. Sycamore Ave. In addition to clothing, the store offers shoes and accessories. It’s open Monday through Saturday.

A Brooklyn-style pizzeria has opened in the Empire Place development along 41st Street in front of The Empire Mall. Pizza Shop relocated to Sioux Falls from New Jersey. In addition to pizza by the slice and whole pie, the restaurant serves pasta dishes, sandwiches, calzones, boneless wings and salads. It’s open daily.

9999 Boba has opened at 3001 E. 10th St. It features milk and fruit teas in a variety of flavors with bursting boba and jelly pearls that can be added. It’s open daily.

A discount store that sells overstocked and returned merchandise is expanding from Rapid City to Sioux Falls. Crate is remodeling a 11,200-square-foot space at 2707 S. Carolyn Ave. and is expected to open in mid-July. The bins include everything from clothing and makeup to food and household items. Prices start at $8 for each item on Fridays and are marked down each day until Mondays when they’re sold for $1.

Brothers Eric and Robbie Veurink are planning to build a manufacturing plant in Hartford for Black Tie Components, which will produce wood floor trusses, wood roof trusses and prefabricated wall panels. The plan is to start construction in September and be open by mid-2023. Black Tie Components plans to start with up to 33 people in 2023 and ramp up to 70 within three years.

A popular business specializing in plant-based, vegan and raw foods is expanding into a downtown cafe. Emily Wilson started Bee Loved Kitchen in late 2019, offering ready-to-eat, healthy meals through grocery stores and other businesses and by delivery.  The Bee Loved Kitchen – Healing Food Cafe – will be in the new Steel District development along North Phillips Avenue. It’s expected to open sometime next year.

Sioux Falls-based Maguire Iron, which builds and maintains water tanks and towers nationwide, plans to build a new headquarters on 30 acres in northeast Sioux Falls. The new approximately $30 million Maguire campus will include three buildings totaling 115,000 square feet: a corporate office headquarters, fabrication facility and maintenance facility. The plan is to start construction this fall and open in early 2024. The campus will be in the new 170-acre Sioux Falls Industrial Park near the northwest corner of interstates 90 and 229 that’s being developed by Van Buskirk Cos.

A new ghost kitchen offering a breakfast menu all day is available in Sioux Falls. The Pancake Kitchen is operated out of the kitchen of Cracker Barrel, and meals are delivered through DoorDash and Grubhub.

Caribou Coffee has opened at 2501 W. 12th St. It’s in a former Pizza Hut dine-in restaurant, which was renovated for Caribou’s “chalet” model, which is a dine-in coffee house that includes a drive-thru.

Your Nurtured Baby, which Laura Hanson started with her daughter Liz in April, is opening an infant wellness studio in a retail center along 85th Street west of Western Avenue. Clients can expect to learn hands-on techniques to support their infant’s development, water movement, massage education and newborn care training, including CPR and baby basics for dads, couples and more. The studio is expected to open in September.

A maternity and children’s boutique in Harrisburg is going out of business. The Stork Shoppe started with online and pop-up sales and moved late last year into a shared marketplace at 305 W. Willow St. in Harrisburg. Final store hours are being held Thursday through Saturday.