RAPID CITY, SD – With one quarter of the year remaining, Rapid City has achieved the second-highest building permit valuation total on record and has surpassed the valuation total for all of 2025.

The City’s Building Services Division issued 244 building permits in September with a combined valuation total of nearly $34.5 million. Through nine months, the City has issued 2,033 building permits with a valuation total of more than $395.3 million. The 2026 total is only surpassed by the valuation total of $463.5 million issued for all of 2023.

Through September of 2025, the City of Rapid City had issued 1,855 building permits with a combined valuation total of $287.5 million.

“September was a very solid month of activity,” said City Community Development Director Vicki Fisher. “We are on the cusp of surpassing $400 million for permit valuation in a year, something that’s only happened once in our City’s history.

“Overall, it’s been an active year, it’s been steady throughout the year and we anticipate the trend to continue.”

The City issued five permits with valuation totals exceeding $1 million.  Leading the way in September was a permit valued at more than $4.9 million issued to the City of Rapid City with Scull Construction Service, Inc. as contractor for phase one rebuild of the Post 320 baseball facility.  A permit valued at more than $4.2 million was issued to Ma Cualli RP Properties LLC with Gustafson Builders as contractor for a third Ma Cualli facility at 1567 Luna Avenue.

Other top permits included a permit valued at more than $3.8 million issued to AMM Rapid City LLC with MAC Construction as contractor for the Les Schwab facility as 1625 Rapp Street; a permit valued at $1.7 million to TG IAM 3887 LLC with Hanna Design Group as contractor for a new AutoZone facility at 3800 Highway 44; and a permit valued at $1.1 million issued to Valley Six Property LLC with JMC Inc. as contractor for the Valley 6 Warehouse at 970 N. Valley Drive.