By Cassie Bartlett Sioux Falls is not the only South Dakota city that could be getting a new events center soon. Rapid City officials are now considering a plan to expand the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. The project includes a new facility that could hold at least 15 thousand seats. The current Don Barnett Center can hold only 94 hundred seats and is severely outdated. Brian Maliske is the civic center’s general manager. He says the 150 million dollar building would allow Rapid City to host more regional events. “Most people don’t understand that when you put together a concert, a major concert or major sporting event, it doesn’t come just to Rapid City, it doesn’t come just to Sioux Falls, it doesn’t come just to Fargo. It’s on a route. And quite honestly, we want to use the other properly sized buildings in our area, whether that’s Fargo or Grand Forks, whether that’s Omaha and Sioux Falls when they build, we want to be on that route with them so we can get back to having those larger concerts and larger sporting events,” Maliske says. Maliske says the proposal also includes building two parking garages to hold 35 hundred cars. He says the facility’s funding would come from a portion of the already established Vision Fund.