Pierre is moving forward with the next step for the redevelopment of the old city hall property along Sioux Avenue.
The City Commission has scheduled a public hearing for Aug. 30, 2022, at 5:45pm to take comments on vacating the block of Chapelle Street between Dakota and Sioux Avenues. The hearing will take place at City Hall.
Mayor Steve Harding says as announced this spring, Hegg Companies has plans to build an apartment complex, a hotel and an office space at the site of old city hall. He says to move this development along, the next step is to vacate the street.
Harding says the street vacation was on hold until Hegg Companies closed on private property to the east of Chapelle. He says when a street is vacated, the street is split down the middle; each half of the street is turned over to the adjacent property owners. In this situation, if the action is approved, the lion’s share of the east half of the street will go to Hegg Companies. The remainder will become part of the city-owned properties adjacent to Chapelle Street.
Procedurally, Harding says there are quite a few steps that need to be taken for this project. After the street is vacated, he says the city will then look to transfer its property to the Pierre Economic Development Corporation. PEDCO will then sell the property– including the old city hall lot, its portion of the street and the county property at the corner of Dakota and Chapelle– to Hegg Companies.
As an economic development corporation, PEDCO has the ability to accept and sell government property and transfer proceeds back to the government. The current plan is for site work to start by the end of this year. Once complete, the development will include an 80-room hotel, a 60-unit apartment complex, an office building, retail space and parking.
In 2018, Pierre City Hall relocated from 222 E. Dakota Avenue to its current location at 2301 Patron Parkway.
Engineer depiction of what the proposed development in Pierre will look like.
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