After doing the above mentioned changes I deleted the target directory in my template and ran pio build --verbose and got this error
[INFO] [Engine$] Using command '/predictionio/apache-predictionio-0.11.0-incubating/PredictionIO-0.11.0-incubating/sbt/sbt' at /predictionio/apache-predictionio-0.11.0-incubating/template-scala-parallel-svd-item-similarity to build.
[INFO] [Engine$] If the path above is incorrect, this process will fail.
[INFO] [Engine$] Uber JAR disabled. Making sure lib/pio-assembly-0.11.0-incubating.jar is absent.
[INFO] [Engine$] Going to run: /predictionio/apache-predictionio-0.11.0-incubating/PredictionIO-0.11.0-incubating/sbt/sbt clean package assemblyPackageDependency in /predictionio/apache-predictionio-0.11.0-incubating/template-scala-parallel-svd-item-similarity
[INFO] [Engine$] [info] Loading project definition from /predictionio/apache-predictionio-0.11.0-incubating/template-scala-parallel-svd-item-similarity/project
[INFO] [Engine$] [info] Set current project to template-scala-parallel-svd-item-similarity (in build file:/predictionio/apache-predictionio-0.11.0-incubating/template-scala-parallel-svd-item-similarity/)
[INFO] [Engine$] [success] Total time: 0 s, completed Aug 23, 2017 6:59:58 AM
[INFO] [Engine$] [info] Updating {file:/predictionio/apache-predictionio-0.11.0-incubating/template-scala-parallel-svd-item-similarity/}template-scala-parallel-svd-item-similarity...
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