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Building permits

Sioux Falls commercial building permits

349 commercial building projects that 605Buzz has published from the City of Sioux Falls permit dataset, across 15 issue weeks. Grouped by the week the city issued them, biggest declared valuation first. — 62 of them are trade permits whose parent project fell outside the fetch window, carrying the parent’s valuation and excluded from every dollar total below

This desk covers COMMERCIAL building permits issued by the City of Sioux Falls, and nothing else. It is not a statewide permits page and not a county one: a project in Rapid City, Brookings or anywhere else in South Dakota does not appear here at all. Residential permits are dropped before they are ever stored — around nine in ten permit rows are homeowners' reshingles and remodels at private addresses, and 605Buzz does not publish those.

The city files the mechanical, plumbing and electrical work on a project as separate permits, and writes the whole project's declared valuation on each one. 605Buzz counts those as part of the project they belong to, never as projects of their own, and never counts their valuation a second time. A page that got this wrong would show four permits and four times the money for one building.

Ingest run 1345 recorded that it read the City of Sioux Falls open building-permits dataset (its commercial permits) in full on Nov. 6, 2026 — every record the source served that run is accounted for here — where the source repeats one listing across many dates, those records are collected into a single article rather than published one per date. That describes one fetch on one day. It is not a statement that the City of Sioux Falls open building-permits dataset (its commercial permits) is itself complete, and nothing has been checked since, so a listing added or withdrawn after that run is not reflected above.

Last successful read of the city permits layer , to the hour: Nov. 6, 2026, 5 a.m. MST / 6 a.m. CST.

A permit on this page last changed: . That is the last time a stored permit or the text of its article changed — not how recently the dataset was read, since a re-read that finds nothing changed leaves every record exactly as it was.

Updated automatically from public-record data — not yet reviewed by an editor. The City of Sioux Falls is the authority on its own permits.

Declared valuation on the permits listed here

$196,894,635.97

287 of the commercial permits 605Buzz has published from this dataset state a declared valuation, and this is their sum. 62 permits are mechanical, plumbing or electrical work whose valuation repeats the parent project's, and they are excluded so no project is counted twice. A declared valuation is the construction value stated on the application, not a final cost, and a permit is not a finished building. This is not the value of construction in Sioux Falls, and it is not the value of construction in South Dakota.

1 further permit is named by another permit as trade work on the same project, so it is listed inside that project rather than counted as one of its own .

On the map

The city publishes its own map coordinate for 252 of these 349 permits, and those are plotted on the map. The other 97 carry no published coordinate and are not on it — records stored before 605Buzz started reading the layer's geometry keep no point until the city's own is read again. 605Buzz does not estimate a location from a street address.

See these permits on the 605Buzz map →

4 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

4 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

40 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

28 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

15 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

  • Permit-CB-407211-2026 new - apartment work at 5441 S Loop Pl, Sioux Falls, SD 57108

    $2,124,329 · issued · status “ Issued ”

    Includes 3 trade permits filed for the same address (Permit-CB-414701-2026, Permit-CB-414700-2026, Permit-CB-414698-2026). The city writes the same declared valuation on each; this is one project, counted once.

14 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

20 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

15 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

11 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

11 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

13 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

9 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

26 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

21 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

24 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

19 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

30 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

25 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

3 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

3 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

31 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

22 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

33 projects the city issued permits for that week, as published by 605Buzz.

28 smaller permits from this week are listed in the weekly roundup → Permits under $250,000 that are not new construction or demolition are collected there rather than given their own article.

This page lists the most recent 12 issue weeks. 3 older weeks carrying 99 projects are counted in every figure above and reachable through search and the JSON feed , rather than being shipped in every request of this page.

What is this?

Every project above comes from the City of Sioux Falls open building-permits dataset, published by the city as open data under a CC BY 4.0 license and read through its public map service . 605Buzz reproduces the city’s own fields with attribution.

A permit is a filing, not a building. The declared valuation is the construction value stated on the application; it is not a final cost, and a permit on its own does not indicate that work has started or finished. Permit status changes at the source are published here as corrections with a diff, not as silent edits.

605Buzz has published 100 articles covering a single project and 15 weekly roundups from this desk. The project count above is not the article count, and it is not the row count in the city’s dataset: a project can carry several permits, and a roundup carries many projects.

See something wrong? How corrections work . This desk is also available as JSON, searchable at /search, and plotted on the map.