Huron businesses announce joint 2018 building project

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HURON – Certified public accountants ELO Prof LLC and Huron Title Co. are joining forces to construct a new office building to house the two firms in the Southtown development.
It’s the latest announcement for the area along Highway 37 that is steadily seeing new growth.
Huron Title part owner Mike Rieck of Mitchell said the search has been on for awhile to get the right location for a building that will last a long time.
“We’ve been looking for opportunities and this just seems to be the right time and the right place,” he said.
ELO managing partner Jay Tolsma said the CPA firm has been expanding recently and is now in five South Dakota communities.
The main office is in Mitchell, where the original company began, and there are also locations in Sioux Falls, Chamberlain, Miller and, most recently, in Huron.
The company traces its roots back to the early 1950s in Mitchell.
ELO purchased Harrington and Associates in Huron about two years ago.
“We merged with Dan’s practice a year ago in January, and actually our history goes back 35 years together,” Tolsma said.

“Both Dan’s practice and our practice came out of Wohlenberg Gage,” he said. “We were all part of Wohlenberg Gage 35 years ago, and then about 30 years ago everybody kind of spread out. We went our separate ways and came back together.”
The new office building will be constructed in the new cul-de-sac south of Coborn’s and east of the Ground Round and Dakotaland Federal Credit Union facilities under construction in Southtown.
“We’ve pretty much solidified the purchase of that property and we’ve got plans and designs to construct an office building with Huron Title,” Tolsma said.
The firms will share space in the 5,100-square-foot, one-story building.
“They’ll be on one half, we’ll be on the other with some common space in between,” he said.
The plan is to put out the bids to contractors after the first of the year and break ground as soon as possible in the spring. The tentative completion is December.
Rieck said it’s appropriate for Huron Title to own a building because it’s in the business of real estate.
“We think it’s important for us to also own real estate,” he said. “We’re pleased to be a part of that, to reinvest back into Huron and Beadle County.”
While there have been some changes, there has consistently been a title insurance or abstract company in Huron for more than a century, Rieck said.

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Pictured is an archetectural drawing of the new ELO Prof LLC and Huron Title office space, which is planned for construction in 2018, in the Southtown Addition.

Photo courtesy of Puetz Construction via ELO