City leaders in Spearfish, S.D., are set to open a $5.8 million facility built to replace a city-owned call center that collapsed during a blizzard two years ago.
The Atlas Building, funded by insurance money, is tentatively set to open in early November, with Mass Markets as the main tenant, the Rapid City Journal reported. The City Council in October 2014 signed a seven-year-lease with the Iowa company formerly known as TMone.
The company has been operating out of the city’s recreation center since the call center collapse during the October 2013 storm that dumped as much as 4 feet of snow on western South Dakota’s Black Hills. No one was in the building when it collapsed, and computer servers were spared.
“We’re really excited to have the new building and a better work life for our folks,” business owner Anthony Marlowe told the Black Hills Pioneer. “I can’t say enough about the city of Spearfish for sticking to it and sticking through it.”
The company’s workforce in Spearfish went from about 250 to about 150 after the storm. It plans to add 100 jobs after the move, the Pioneer reported.
“Saving Mass Markets was a great benefit to the community,” City Administrator Joe Neeb said.
Neeb said he also is looking forward to hosting recreational activities such as roller skating in the center once Mass Markets is in its new location.
“That was a nice indoor space for a lot of activities, especially with the weather starting to turn cooler,” he said.
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