Roads and bridges
Lowry Avenue reconstruction
Hennepin County, in collaboration with the City of Minneapolis, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, Metro Transit and the six Lowry Avenue Northeast corridor neighborhoods, is reconstructing Lowry Avenue (County Road 153) between Marshall Street (County Road 23) and Johnson Street in Northeast Minneapolis.
Full-size Lowry Avenue project map (PNG, 1MB)
Construction dates
- 2024: Washington Street to Central Avenue (complete)
- 2025: Central Avenue to Johnson Street (under construction)
- 2026: Marshall Street to Washington Street (anticipated)
Construction updates
Traffic impacts
This project is complete, and Lowry Avenue has reopened to traffic. In spring of 2026, Lowry Avenue construction will move to the west, when crews will begin improvements between University Avenue and Washington Street. Construction is scheduled to begin in March.
Project information
Improvements
When complete, this section of Lowry Avenue will feature:
- A repaved road with one lane of traffic in each direction, traffic calming extensions at each intersection, improved curbs and ramps for better accessibility
- New streetlights and storm sewer facilities
- A shared-use path along the north side of Lowry Avenue for people walking, biking and rolling
- New sidewalk along the south side of Lowry Avenue
- Wider boulevards that provide more space between traffic and people walking or rolling
- New signals at Johnson Street
- New crossing at Fillmore Street including pedestrian-activated flashing beacons and a center median to help people walking and rolling
Phase 1 project layout (PDF, 4MB)
Phase 2 project layout
The layout for Phase 2 between Marshall Street (County Road 23) and Washington Street was approved by the Minneapolis City Council in September of 2024. The project team will continue to work with community members along the corridor in preparation for construction, anticipated to begin in 2026, date subject to change.
Community involvement
Previous Phase 2 engagement
The project team has collected in-person and online feedback on the Phase 2 initial concept. The engagement efforts included meetings with neighborhood associations, outreach to local businesses, an open house and an online feedback map to collect location specific feedback on the initial concept.
Phase 2 open house: May 23, 2024
The project team hosted on open house at the Bottineau Recreation Center.
Previous Phase 1 engagement
The county’s initial engagement efforts ran through 2021 and 2022 to gather input from residents, business owners and patrons, community members, students, transit users, and visitors to determine a layout from Marshall to Johnson streets that would best work for all users of the corridor.
Virtual public workshop: May 11, 2022
Virtual public workshop: December 9, 2021
Community meetings and events
2022
- Audubon Farmers Market
- Fulton Grand Fondo
- Recovery Bike Shop End of 30 Days of Biking Celebration
October 2021
- Minnehaha Open Streets
- Lyndale Open Streets
- NE Farmers Market
- Eastside Co-op Annual Event
- Holland Neighborhood Improvement Association Lowry Avenue NE Task Force meeting
September 2021
- Fulton Gran Fondo + Art Crank
- Audubon Farmers Market
- Windom Park Citizens in Action Meeting
- Logan Park Neighborhood Association General Meeting
- Bottineau Neighborhood Association Board Meeting
- West Broadway Open Streets
Project team
Hennepin County
- Kelly Agosto, P.E.
Project manager (Phase 2 design)
kelly.agosto@hennepin.us - Amanda Shotton
Project manager (Phase 1 construction)
amanda.shotton@hennepin.us
612-384-8819 - Colin Cox
Media contact
colin.cox@hennepin.us
612-596-7426
City of Minneapolis
- Peter Bennett (Phase 2 design)
Transportation planner
peter.bennett@minneapolismn.gov
612-673-2460 - Alebel Mehari (Phase 1 construction)
Design engineer
alebel.mehari@minneapolismn.gov
612-673-3602
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