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Sioux Empire Home Builders Care Foundation Partners with Harrisburg School District for Home Builders Academy ANNETTE AMDAHL | PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR
February 27, 2019 - In a continuing effort to grow our future building trades’ workforce, the Sioux Empire Home Builders Care Foundation is excited to announce a new partnership with the Harrisburg School District to provide $250,000 to build the Home Builders Academy on the Harrisburg High School campus. In the new Home Builders Academy building, students will learn the basic skills needed to construct a home, and once the home is moved to its new location, students can further pursue the finishing specialties, such as electrical, drywall, insulation and HVAC. Not only will the Home Builders Care Foundation be the lead investor of the new building but industry leaders will also be coming into the classroom to provide industry expertise. It is planned for the
new Home Builders Academy building to break ground Spring 2019. Students from area schools outside the Harrisburg School District will also be given the opportunity to enroll in the program which will begin Fall 2019.“We are excited to be partnering with the Harrisburg School District in an effort to train our emerging building trades’ workforce,” said Tom DeHaven, Sioux Empire Home Builders Care Foundation Chair. “When industry, the community and schools can come together to provide new learning opportunities while filling an industry need, everyone wins, especially the students.” Harrisburg School District Superintendent Jim Holbeck reiterated that this is the right thing to do. “There’s a problem out there. We saw it, you saw it, and we’re coming together to fix it... This is a partnership that we are proud of, and we can’t do enough to show how happy we are to be partners with the Care Foundation.”
GreatLIFE to Bring Big Fitness Center to Harrisburg FROM SIOUX FALLS.BUSINESS GreatLIFE Golf & Fitness is entering Harrisburg. The membership-based unlimited golf and fitness business has purchased the former Carolan Rental building on North Cliff Avenue in Harrisburg, just south of Sioux Falls.
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“There’s a lot we like about it,” GreatLIFE director of fitness Nick Ovenden said. “It’s set up as a big, open space. It has a big parking lot to the south and great ability to have an indoor-outdoor feel already.” The 16,000-square-foot building sits on 6 acres not far from GreatLIFE’s Performance Center at 69th Street and Southeastern Avenue, allowing for features that complement that center while adding lots of fitness options for the growing Harrisburg community. “Harrisburg has definitely been a spot we’ve looked at,” Ovenden said. “We looked at a few opportunities, but we feel Harrisburg is going to be big enough where a small satellite gym wouldn’t do it justice. When this building came up, it was perfect, and we jumped on the opportunity as quickly as we could.” The new gym will have everything GreatLIFE members expect in a
fitness center, plus lots of extras. “We’ll have a large turf presence there,” Ovenden said. “People at Performance Center love the outdoor space, but we’re limited on room. This will have plenty of space to grow and create a big, fun outdoor space for people training for outdoor adventure races.” The building also will include saunas, a large area for free weights and six built-in garage doors to support the indooroutdoor feel. GreatLIFE’s purchase includes some of Carolan Rental’s inflatables. “We like them for our family events but also see them being used outdoors to train for inflatable 5Ks,” Ovenden said. “They can be a tough workout, so it would be fun to incorporate them during the nicer weather.” GreatLIFE will do significant construction within the building and will announce more details about the features there in coming months. The plan is to be open by late summer. “It will be a whole different atmosphere than any of our facilities right now,” Ovenden said. “We’re really excited for it.”
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