Where, when, and why
is CenterPoint Energy performing construction?
Beginning on Monday,
April 16, and ending within early July 2018, CenterPoint Energy’s contractor,
Michels Corporation, will be replacing natural gas mains and connecting natural
gas service lines to the installed mains in Minneapolis along the following streets:
- E. Hennepin Avenue from Nicollet Island to 5th
Street SE
- Central Avenue from E. Hennepin Avenue to 6th
Street SE
- 5th Street SE from the Northstar Line
– BNSF Railroad to E. Hennepin Avenue
- Main Street SE from the 1st Avenue
Bridge to E. Hennepin Avenue
- On Nicollet Island, Wilder Street and Merriam
Street from E. Hennepin Avenue to Nicollet Island Pavilion
What are the construction details for the next few weeks?
- For the duration of the project, there will be at least one lane open on E. Hennepin Avenue, which is a one-way street. More than one lane may be closed at different times in different places along E. Hennepin Avenue, depending on the crews’ progress. Regardless of the closures, drivers will always be able to go northeast on E. Hennepin Avenue.
- Residents and businesses will always have foot access to and from their locations. The sidewalks will be left open on either side of E. Hennepin Avenue. The entrances to the parking lots near the construction route will not be blocked.
- For the duration of the project, the crews will close the southernmost parking lane (going northeast) on E. Hennepin Avenue from 2nd Street to University Avenue. The bike lane on the Hennepin Avenue Bridge will have signage to tell bikers to merge with car lanes.
- For the next two or three weeks, the crews will also close part of the intersection of E. Hennepin Avenue and 2nd Street. Drivers will be able to go northeast on E. Hennepin Avenue, but they can’t turn right onto 2nd Street from E. Hennepin Avenue. Detour signs will be posted on site, leading drivers to University Avenue, Bank Street and Lourdes Place.
Further construction on E. Hennepin Avenue will be done by...
CenterPoint Energy’s work will be done in coordination with
Hennepin County’s “Hennepin Avenue NE Concrete Rehabilitation” project, which
will begin after July 4, 2018; and with the City of Minneapolis’s paving
project on 5th Street NE. For more information on the county’s and
city’s projects, please visit their respective websites:
Further construction will be done by Mortenson Company in
building a 26-story apartment tower at 333 Hennepin Avenue, which is scheduled
to be complete in August 2019. This work is not associated with CenterPoint
Energy’s project. For more information on that project, please visit their
website here.
How can I contact CenterPoint Energy?
To sign up for frequent updates or see more information on the project, please visit our project's web page for “Minneapolis – East Hennepin Avenue.” For further questions, you can call our
Information Hotline at 612-321-5369 or our Communication Specialist, Hannah
Gullickson, at 612-321-5546. We
appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve you. Thank you
very much.
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