College town, college-town pace.
Brookings runs on SDSU's calendar — and the businesses that thrive here adjust to it. We build sites that show up for the back-to-school rush and stay current through the summer thaw.
≈25,000
≈55 min north of Sioux Falls via I-29
Brookings County seat
Home of SDSU · regional ag-tech hub · Larson Ice Center
A college town site has two seasons. From mid-August through May, the audience is one mix; from late May through July, it shifts. We design the homepage so that flip doesn't require rebuilding the site every August.
Brookings has a small-but-serious operator class — ag-tech founders, downtown restaurateurs, second-generation trades. They want the work to look like Minneapolis without paying for Minneapolis. That's the wedge.
Drive time from our office is under an hour. We do quarterly site reviews in person if the engagement calls for it.
We have not yet shipped a project in Brookings as of May 2026. Closest analogue: the Atlas Gutter Co. rebrand (Sioux Falls metro, May 2026) — established trades operator with real reputation finally getting a site that matches the work.
Operators in Brookings
The kinds of Brookingsbusinesses our work fits. If yours isn't listed but feels close, write anyway.
- Independent restaurants along Main Avenue
- SDSU-adjacent service businesses (coffee, fitness, retail)
- Ag-tech and precision-ag startups
- Healthcare and dental clinics serving the campus
- Real estate teams handling student rentals + family homes
- Trades and specialty contractors on the build-out side
- SDSU-adjacent retail and food service
- Ag-tech and ag-services
- Healthcare and dental
- Downtown retail and breweries
- Real estate brokerages
- Trades serving the campus build-out
Recent work in or near Brookings
// brand · web · in flightAtlas Gutter Co.
Brand and marketing site for a four-year-established Sioux Falls seamless-gutter operator. Built around the Spring 2026 promo and the service-area network.
// brand · web · two weeksHausClean
Brand refresh and full rebuild for a Sioux Falls residential cleaning service. Old site → editorial-grade brand identity with a B2B partner track.
What Brookings operators ask before signing
Can you build something that works for student traffic?
Yes. We've built sites that route different audiences (student / family / vendor) into different flows from the same homepage, without one of them feeling like an afterthought.
How do you handle a seasonal traffic spike?
The site is built on Vercel, which scales automatically. Move-in week, game days, the Jackrabbits' first home win — none of it takes the site down.
Building something in Brookings?
Tell us the project in a paragraph. We reply within 24 hours with a plan, a timeline, and a real number. No discovery decks. No paid scope work.