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Welcome from the Executive Director, the Mayor, and Chamber of Commerce President.
Executive DirectorSHEDCO
Andrea Powers, executive director of the Southern Hills Economic Development Corporation (SHEDCO), based in Hot Springs.
Powers, originally from Memphis, TN., has worked in two fields. One is education. where she spent nearly three decades, including 11 years as a grant administrator for five school districts, while serving as the executive director of a consortium of school districts.
Her other career was serving as a park ranger and a fire behavior monitor at 10 different regional national parks. These include the Badlands, Wind Cave, Jewel Cave and Mount Rushmore National Monument here in South Dakota; Devil’s Tower in Wyoming; and Theodore Roosevelt, Knife River and Fort Union parks in North Dakota.
Powers said her ultimate goal for SHEDCO is to create “a better quality of life for people in the Southern Hills.”
We welcome you to our community as a visitor, a resident or a business owner. Our job here at SHEDCO is to connect you to the services you need in order to flourish here in the Southern Black hills of South Dakota.
Mayor of Hot Springs
Welcome to Hot Springs, a community with a forward focus that is building on the heritage of our past. It was the healing waters, a number of warm mineral springs that bubble up along the Fall River that drew multitudes to this beautiful valley. Our founders built iconic sandstone structures to heal our nation’s veterans and healing veterans became our foundation. Hot Springs is home to the Veterans Administration’s (VA) Hot Springs Medical Center along with a recently opened national call center located on the Hot Springs campus. In addition, Hot Springs is home to the newly constructed State Veterans Home that cares for veterans from throughout the state.
Fall River Health Services offers a modern, newly constructed 25 bed critical access hospital with 24 hour emergency room service, a new Seven Sisters Assisted Living and nursing home and is home to the Fall River Rural Health Clinic. The Hot Springs Ambulance Service is located in this modern medical complex along with a “Life Flight” medical helicopter that serves the local area.
The City of Hot Springs is willing to assist all looking to relocate to the area. We have abundant clean water and a modern communications network. Located just off the four-lane Heartland Express, we have more than adequate transportation links from north to south and east to west.
In addition we offer a quality of life that few other communities can match. With a moderate climate, some of the cleanest air in America we offer a wide range of recreational activities. The Southern Hills Golf Course is the premier golf course in the area and the Evans Plunge Mineral Springs is the oldest tourist attraction in the Black Hills and accommodates local residents with year round relaxation and recreation. Hunting, fishing, hiking and a host of other outdoor recreation activities along with Wind Cave National Park are just minutes away. The world famous Mammoth Site, an archeological wonder, is located within the city and the signature attraction of the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, is less than an hour from Hot Springs.
We have a proud history and we are leaning forward to grow into a bigger and better future. Come along and join us on that journey.
George H. Kotti, Mayor
Chamber President
The Hot Springs Area Chamber of Commerce is organized for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial, agricultural, civic and general interest of the City of Hot Springs; and for the purpose of promoting tourist travel, resort accommodations, conventions, conferences and meetings within the area and at the Mueller Civic Center. The Chamber of Commerce in its activities shall be non-partisan, non-sectional and non-sectarian. We invite you to become a member of an organization that is dedicated to promoting your business. Please contact us at 605-745-4140 for more information or stop by our office located in the Mueller Center.