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Orpheum with the "Link to the Future", creating one large theater complex spanning the block; construction began in 1995. The Link, however, proved much more expensive to construct than the playhouse had anticipated, and the Sioux Falls Community Playhouse suffered financially. In 2000, the City of Sioux Falls purchased the Actor's Studio, the Orpheum Theater for $ 475,000, and the unfinished Link for $ 275,000 to prevent the complex from having to sell its furnishings and close. The Sioux Falls Community Playhouse organization still closed on April 30, 2002. In 2003, a few remaining Sioux Falls Community Playhouse members restarted the local community theatre group as the Sioux Empire Community Theatre Inc. and in 2021 rebranded as to
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