City Hall expects the parking ramp it's building downtown to open next June.

Sioux Falls Parking Manager Matt Nelson gave his first public briefing to the City Council Tuesday during a budget presentation outlining his division's proposed 2020 budget. But the conversation quickly devolved into the topic of what's next for the standalone parking ramp that had been slated to anchor the now-defunct Village on the River project.

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"It's scheduled to be open in June as of right now, and that's consistent with the ... timeline that's always been a part of this project — a full opening in June 2020," he said.

Originally, the ramp would have been surrounded by hotels, retail and other commercial elements as a part of the public-private partnership with Legacy Developments and Lamont Companies. But the city terminated its agreement with those partners, who were operating under the name Village River Group, alleging they defaulted on the contract.

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Nelson said while independent consultants haven't been brought back in to reassess future demand without the built-in demand that would have come with private uses, the city's internal assessments lead him to believe there will be demand for ramp leases when it opens.

"We anticipate 300, 350 users on that site on day one," he said.

The city set aside $21 million for its portion of the Village on the River project. Nelson couldn't answer questions from councilors about how much of that money has been spent or how the absence of a private partner will impact the bottom line. That's because architects are in the process of redesigning some portions of the ramp that would have directly touched the private structures to be built around and above it, he said.

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"We don't have all those designs back in yet, and once we get those designs back in, they'll be priced by (the contractor)," he said. "These aren't major changes but obviously when you take something off the top, now you need roofs on your stairwells and we have doors that lead to nowhere that needed to be infilled with concrete blocks."