Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Expansion Project Team Member Profile Patri Acevedo Market Leader JLG Architects

Issue 4 - April 2019

As the head of JLG’s Rapid City office, Patri brings over 20 years of international design expertise, cultural sensitivity, and a wild and wonderful wit to this project.

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Patri resided in New York, Florida and Texas before making the Black Hills her home. She is an engaged and passionate civic leader, and President of the South Dakota chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Additionally, she serves as a board JLG Architects member of the YMCA Rapid City, and one of the JLG Architects serves as the Local Design Architect founding Council Members of the Buffalo Gals, among on the project. The firm specializes in urban design, numerous other engagements. master planning and architectural design for sports/ recreation facilities, universities, K-12 schools, aviation Patri holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental facilities, medical centers, and mixed-use/multi-family Design Field - Architecture and a Master of housing. Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. She is licensed in five states and has a Founded in 1989, by Gary Johnson and Lonnie Laffen it hand in many of revitalization projects downtown. has grown to become the fastest growing architecture firm in America, according to Inc. Magazine. JLG has offices in Minneapolis, Rochester, and Alexandria, Minnesota, and Grand Forks, Bismarck, Minot, Williston, Dickinson, and Fargo, North Dakota, and Brookings, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

They recently became 100% Employee-Owned and are also part of the 1% pro bono design program of public architecture. This includes donating a considerable amount of design services to non-profit organizations. www.gotmine.com/expansion | 605.394.4115 | [email protected] facebook.com/gotminerc | instagram & Twitter @RushmorePlazaCC DESIGN TIME LINE

Schematic Design The project team determines the areas, physical requirements, and relationships of all the required building spaces and components. The team confirms or revises the total building Project square footage, the project schedule and UPDATE occupancy dates. The purpose of schematic design is to translate the project program

into physical drawings of space. This phase As we enter May, the Civic Center Project team continues to includes complete descriptions of building meet every two weeks and is just over a quarter of the way through the Design Development Phase. systems(structural, mechanical, HVAC and electrical), interior and exterior finishes and the This phase has the Project Team and Architect working building site as well as strategies for technical together to select materials including interior finishes and requirements. products such furniture styles and mixtures, concession STATUS: FINAL STAGES stand needs, flooring options, overhead doors vs walk through, etc. The architect team(s) will continue to revise Design Development the drawings with more specificity and detail than in Design development collects the results from Schematic Design. the schematic design phase and takes them one step further. This phase involves finalizing the Engineering will commence on the structure, plumbing, design and specifying such items as materials, electrical, heating/ventilation systems, energy analysis and any other project specific systems. For the Project team this window and door locations and general is a study in how the expansion ties into the overall complex, structural details. and where initial construction savings are weighed against operational expenses once the expansion is up and running. Design development usually yields a more One example of this is using the existing Energy Plant for detailed site plan as well as floor plans, cooling vs. a dedicated system for the arena, providing us elevations and section drawings with full with a long term operational cost savings. dimensions. STATUS: 25% COMPLETION As we move towards the end of design development, a good deal of product selection and systems design will be progressing. This phase concludes when the interior and Construction Docs & Bidding exterior design of the building is locked in and we can unveil The construction document phase produces the drawings to the public! drawings with much more detail, which are used for the construction of the project. These During this time we have been meeting with our Design drawings typically include specifications for Committee comprised of citizens from around the region. construction details and materials. Once the Their input has been vital to ensuring that the look and feel CDs are completed, the architects send them on the interior are in line with the Black Hills Region. to contractors for pricing or bidding as well as to the building department for required permit The expansion will open in the Fall of 2021 with the project approvals. construction expected to last 22 months. STATUS: SUMMER 2019

“We’d like to express our heartfelt thanks to the voters of Rapid City for making their voices heard on this important topic. This expansion is going to better serve our community, allow our events to grow and open the door to new opportunities.” -Craig Baltzer, Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Executive Director