The Children’s Place, a retailer of children’s merchandise, will open a location in the Rushmore Mall in November, according to a e-mailed press release from the mall.
The 4,478-square-foot store will be located near The Buckle.
The Children’s Place Retail Stores Inc. owns and operates 936 The Children’s Place stores, including three in South Dakota.
The Tractor Supply Company store on East Mall Drive near Cabela’s will open Aug. 1.
The store will employ 16. It’s one of two new businesses near Cabela’s since the outdoors retailer opened in August 2008.
Dakota Discount RVs moved across the street from Cabelas from a location on Highway 44 in late 2008.
So there we have it. Two new businesses by Cabela’s. Neither are exactly mainstream retail stores.
What could be next out there?
It’s a new business for a historic building. And what better to sell at a historic building than consigned furniture and décor items.
Elli Thurston Lang just opened the Marketplace on 7th resale furniture shop today.
The Marketplace on 7th is in the lower level at 320 7th St, below Victoria’s Garden. Lang and her father, local architect Fred Thurston, own the building.
Between her father’s work and her training in marketing and more learning at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the shop felt like the next logical step based on her influences and training.
“I’ve kind of grown up in it,” she said.
Furniture at the shop is set up in vignettes, to showcase the furniture in different settings.
“We’ve got assortments: Living room, dining room, bedroom, garden, seasonal, some structural elements,” Lang said.
The building was built in 1920 as the Rapid City Fruit and Produce building. And while its now home to new businesses, the original construction shows through, in some very charming ways.
“You can see a lot of history of that in the basement of the building,” she said.
Lang will also sell some vintage linens, although she leans more toward retro items from the ‘50s and the arts and crafts style. And she won’t just sell furniture. Accessories such as lamps and rugs are also up for sale.
Lang will accept consignments on Monday (from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and on Tuesday and Wednesday by appointment. Consignment terms are 50/50, Lang said.
The shop is open from Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Contact The Marketplace on 7th at 605-342-8160.
Runnings representatives are set to nix a move into the old Target building in the Rushmore Mall.
Representatives of the farm retailer’s parent company will withdraw a site development plan from consideration by the Rapid City Planning Commission on Thursday.
Runnings Farm & Fleet, which has a Rapid City location, had made a deal to move into the vacant 101,500-square-foot building, and add a 15,000-square-foot outdoor storage area to its north side.
A spokeswoman for Target Corp. confirmed in May the Minnesota-based company had a deal with Running Supply Inc. for the building, which is owned by Target.
Target moved out of the location to a new store in the Rushmore Crossing development in early October. The building, a major entrance to the mall, has been vacant since then.
The farm retailer’s interest in the former Target location surfaced in January. Runnings submitted its development plan for the location, which was met with requests for additional documentation by city planning staff in March.
The planning staff wanted Runnings to provide details on the new store’s lighting, signage, air handing equipment and trash bin placement on the site. They also questioned whether the addition Runnings planned to build would match the Rushmore Mall’s exterior.
Calls to Runnings and Target Corp. representatives weren’t immediately returned. Marcia Elkins, director of the city’s Growth Management Department, referred questions to the two companies.
There are 30 Runnings retail stores throughout Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana. Running Supply Inc. is based in Marshall, Minn., and has a Farm and Fleet retail location in Rapid City at 1555 Haines Ave.
I was scouring the Internet today, and came across this Rushmore Crossing proposed merchandising plan, on the McDonald Properties Web site. It looks relatively old, at least compared to the Katz & Associates map released this March.
The maps don’t align perfectly, but I was interested to see the restaurants that appeared to in the works to sign a letter of intent.
- Qdoba Mexican Grill
- CiCi’s Pizza Buffet (although the Katz map puts Mens Wearhouse there)
- Shari’s Restaurant
- Tilted Kilt Pub and Eatery
I was particularly intrigued by the last two. I’ve never heard of them before.
Anyway, take a look and see what you think.
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Z-Coil shoes are coming to Rapid City, and with it, a lot of pain relief, says franchise owner Rich and Laura Larson.
The Larsons used the special shoes with springs for heels before they started selling them. And while they first opened a part-time storefront in Deadwood five years ago, they moved to a year-round location in Spearfish two years ago.
But the shoes kept selling. The Larsons, from Sioux Falls, sold 300 of the shoes during the stock show in Rapid City this spring.
Some buyers said they had eyed the shoes, but didn’t want to drive to Spearfish to buy them.
“That kind of opened up our eyes and we said, at that point in time, ‘we’re not doing what we should be doing if people aren’t coming because they think that’s too far,’” Rich Larson said.
The Larsons hired five employees for the new store, including Kathy Johnson, formerly the co-owner of Tally’s Restaurant in downtown Rapid City. Johnson, a wearer of Z-Coil shoes, was a great person to manage the new store, Larson said.
“We’re excited about the staff we found,” he said.
The new store will open Aug. 2 at 1320 Mount Rushmore Rd., next to the Medicine Shoppe pharmacy.
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The gold nuggets always get the eyes, said Lou Anagnostopulos, of Dakota Coins & Precious Metals.
“The nuggets always grab people’s attention,” he said “There’s something about a big gold nugget.”
Anagnostopulos has several nuggets, with some weighing in at 3 ounces, or about the size of the tip of your thumb. He also has many other coins and precious metals, as well as Homestake mine memorabilia and artifacts, including ancient coins.
He’s been selling precious metals and coins for 20 years, but recently decided to open his own storefront, located in the Country Junction at 622 Saint Joseph St, in Rapid City.
“I’ve always wanted to do a coin shop, and people have been bugging me to do it,” he said.
The interest in gold sales is another reason Anagnostopulos decided to open his shop.
He saw people who came through town buying gold and other things, and he wanted to give people a better deal with better service.
“My main thing is to give people a fair shake and a full disclosure of what everything means,” he said.
The shop includes an area where someone selling an item or a coin collection may show Anagnostopulos the item or items in private.
The shop is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and closed on Sunday. The shop’s telephone number is 484-9788.
It comes with some East River flavor, and it has quietly opened in Hill City.
It’s called Stone Faces Winery, and it’s apparently an extension of Valiant Vineyards Winery, in Vermillion, run by Sherry and Eldon Nygaard.
All I’ve got is a brochure and a Web site.
The brochure mentions Stone Faces’s tasting room, bed and breakfast, private label wines and “Dakotas Best Gift Shop.”
“Stay & Play,” it says.
The winery’s number is 605-574-3600. The location is the former Country Manor Bed & Breakfast that’s been for sale for awhile.
I heard they just opened up, with a so-called soft opening.
How about that? Between this and Prairie Berry, we’ve got a mini-Wine Country a-sproutin’ up.
Just about a year after Cabela’s opened off Exit 61 on East Mall Drive, the next retail store for the area, will open for business.
Tractor Supply Company, at 3440 E. Mall Dr. , will open in early August, according to a press release from the company.
The store sells farm and ranch supplies.
It’s more growth for that area, although I haven’t heard of any new businesses planning to open nearby in quite some time.
Michele at Prairie Berry Winery passed this along to me:
Prairie Berry Winery near Hill City is doubling both the size of their Wine production area and wine-making capacity.
On June 12, three new custom-designed 10,560-gallon fermentation tanks arrived from California and were put into place by a 115 foot crane. The rest of the building expansion can be finished now that theses giants have taken their spots.
Matt Keck and Sandi Vojta, owners, say the new tanks should be operational by late July, allowing them to make larger batches of wine, with greater flexibility.
This milestone of production also celebrates 10 years of commercial winemaking for the family, who started out with 60 gallon tanks in Vojta’s father’s basement in Mobridge in 1999. The family has been making wine since 1876.
Photo caption: Stainless steel, 10,560-gallon tanks are craned into place at Prairie Berry Winery, Hill City, SD. In the background can be seen the tower at Harney Peak, the highest point East of the the Rocky Mountains.
Good for Prairie Berry!
And like I told Michelle when we spoke on the phone, I still have to get out there for the food.
Seems like I’ve been out there plenty for just the wine.
