University Hills to add fourth apartment building

Oct. 17, 2019

As one apartment building pushes toward a 2020 opening, another already is in the works to follow it in the growing University Hills Village development.

The 80-acre property west of the University Center and northwest of  54th Street North and Marion Road has steadily added residents in the past five years and will reach almost 350 units when its third building opens next year.

“It’s looking good,” said Jarrod Smart of Smart Commercial Construction. “We’re working our way down to the second floor, putting the common area space together.”

The fourth building with 137 units will start some initial ground work this year but mostly be under construction in 2020, with a planned opening in 2021.

University Hills Village is being developed by a team that includes Smart and Danielle Merrow, broker and owner of Dynamic Real Estate LLC.

The first of nine planned apartment buildings in the development opened in late fall of 2014, and the second one opened in September 2017.

The third building will be unique in the package of amenities it offers, including an indoor pool, golf simulator, fitness center, basketball court, gaming room, theater room, craft room and underground parking.

A courtyard planned for outside the building will include a “pergola, putting greens, general green space, gathering areas, a fire pit, fireplace, an elevated patio connected to the indoor pool, raised planter beds, picnic tables, a couple outdoor kitchens and a walkway that leads to the park to the west of the building where eventually there will be outdoor pool and more open green space,” Smart said.

“I think the elaborate courtyard will be unlike anything else in Sioux Falls.”

The plan is to open both the building and courtyard by mid-2020.

Next year also will bring road construction. The developers will build a street to connect to 54th Street North on the south side and complete a loop around the perimeter of the development.

The development plan for University Hills calls for nine apartment buildings, which Smart said is still the concept. There’s a chance one building could become a hotel instead, depending on demand.

Regardless, “it’s going to be one of the most dense multifamily communities in town,” he said. “It keeps going.”

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University Hills to add fourth apartment building

As one apartment building pushes toward a 2020 opening, another already is in the works to follow it in the growing University Hills Village development.

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