Feb. 21, 2023

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

University Hills Village is opening its fourth apartment building this month within the complex on North Marion Road. It will add 137 units, bringing the total to 484, and features Credo’s Pub on the first floor. Construction already is underway on the fifth apartment building in the development, which will mirror the fourth with additional mixed-use space. It’s scheduled to be done in late 2024 or early 2025.

A coffee kiosk in Tea that recently added a food truck and a trailer is expanding with a drive-thru coffee shop in Harrisburg that also will serve food. Central Dakota Perk is taking over part of the space occupied by Subway in a retail center on Cliff Avenue and hopes to open later this month. Central Dakota Perk Mobile Coffee & Catering is available for public and private events. The food truck is parked at the Tea kiosk and is used to make breakfast food. Once spring arrives, it also will serve lunch.

Prairie C Dessert Bar has closed because owner Keyes Clemmer is moving back to New York City. Clemmer’s Prairie C Kitchen will continue to bake through March.

Sugar Palace by Emily has opened in Harrisburg, bringing gourmet cupcakes, brownies, cookies and special-order cakes from the hands of Emily Studemann. The bakery is at 220 S. Cliff Ave. and is open Monday through Saturday.

A new downtown Mexican ice cream shop offers sweet and savory treats. In addition to ice cream, popsicles, fruit bowls and drinks, El Chamoy serves traditional Mexican street foods like elote, chicarron preparado and salchipulpos. It’s at 523 W. 10th St. and is open from noon to 9 p.m. every day except for Wednesday.

Cookie Co. has opened in a retail center at 69th and Cliff. The franchise offers four cookie flavors each week: chocolate chip and three that rotate. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Sanford Health and Fairview Health Services have postponed the target date for finalizing their merger to May 31 following requests from the state of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota. The original target date was March 31.

Buff City Soap has opened its second franchised location in Sioux Falls. It’s in a retail center at Dawley Farm Village and is open daily. Buff City specializes in customizable plant-based soaps, and bath and laundry products. The product mix includes bar soap, foaming hand soap, shower gel, laundry soap and bath bombs. There’s also a bar area where customers can make their own products.

DaShawn and Samantha Lewis, the owners of food truck Windy City Bites, have expanded with a restaurant. Windy City Bites Bar & Grill is at 114 N. Indiana Ave. and features a menu inspired by the owners’ favorite neighborhood restaurants in Chicago, their hometown. They’re on a limited schedule this month and are waiting for a beer and wine license to be approved.

Tuesday Morning Corp. has filed for bankruptcy and is closing its Sioux Falls store along with 264 other sites. The store at 2721 W. 41st St. is expected to close is less than a month.

Insurance agency Boen & Associates is building a new office on part of the former Landscape Garden Centers site on South Minnesota Avenue. It has outgrown its building at 307 W. 41st St.

A new event venue is coming to downtown Sioux Falls. Monick Yards is renovating the former Monick Pipe building at 605 E. Eighth St. The interior can be used as one large space with seating for 400 guests or two smaller spaces. There will be an outdoor patio. It expects to be open in late summer.

Parker’s Bistro is closed for about two weeks while a new kitchen hood is installed and the space gets a face-lift. The work is part of an expansion into the building to the north. While the work is happening, Parker’s is doing a pop-up experience at Icon Event Hall, serving a five-course, Mexican-themed tasting menu Feb. 23 through March 2. Reservations are required.

MacKenzie River Pizza, Grill & Pub is closed for several weeks for renovation work. The popular restaurant at 236 S. Main Ave. plans to reopen March 19 if not sooner. The restaurant needs to replace the flooring in the kitchen and behind the bar and will update the bathrooms.

A new DQ Grill & Chill is coming to northwest Sioux Falls. Work is expected to begin this summer on a site near the new Jefferson High School.

Cali Bahrenfuss has started Delta Sleep Coaching to help people suffering from insomnia. She leads clients through a structured and evidence-based program, using a technique called cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. She is registered as a sleep technologist and is certified in clinical sleep health. Her services offer online coaching and individual phone calls.

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