Lowry Avenue reconstruction

County Road 153 in Northeast Minneapolis

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, plans to reconstruct Lowry Avenue (County Road 153) between Marshall Street (County Road 23) and Johnson Street in Northeast Minneapolis.

Construction on Phase 1, between Washington and Johnson streets, began in the spring of 2024.

Phase 2 between Marshall and Washington streets is funded separately and is earlier in its design phase.

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Project information

Project status and updates

Updates for Phase 1 construction will be posted here and sent out to our Lowry Avenue email list which you can sign up for at the bottom of this page to receive the most recent construction and design information. Updates for Phase 2, currently in the design stage, can be found in the "Community involvement" drawer below.

Phase 1 construction

Construction schedule for Phase 1 of Lowry Avenue:

2024: Washington Street to Central Avenue (full closure)

2025: Central Avenue to Johnson Street (full closure)

Ongoing traffic impacts

Now through mid-October: Lowry Avenue closed in both directions from Washington Street to Central Avenue.

Follow detour using: Central Avenue, Broadway Street Northeast, University Avenue.

Phase 1 project layout

When complete, this section of Lowry Avenue will feature:

A shared-use path along the northern side of the corridor for people walking, biking and rolling
A repaved road with a three-lane design, including one lane of traffic in each direction and a center turn lane
Wider boulevards that provide more space between traffic and people walking or rolling
Center medians at Madison, Quincy and Fillmore streets
New signals including improved crossings with pedestrian-activated flashing beacons at Washington and Fillmore street intersections to help people walking and rolling

View the Lowry Avenue phase 1 project layout (PDF)

Community involvement

Ongoing Phase 2 engagement

The project team continues to seek feedback on the Phase 2 portion of the project. Through 2024, the team will meet with stakeholders along the corridor to discuss potential designs, receive feedback and answer questions about changes to the corridor.

View the phase 2 layout (PDF)

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.

View the open house presentation boards (PDF)

Previous project 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

Related projects

The Lowry Avenue reconstruction project is one of a number of projects planned in Northeast Minneapolis over the next several years.

View our area upcoming projects one-pager (PDF)

More information is available on the project pages of the leading agencies.

University Avenue improvements (MnDOT)

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is developing a future vision for the 10-mile stretch of Highway 47 (University Avenue) and Highway 65 (Central Avenue) that extends from where they meet in Northeast Minneapolis to County Highway 10 in Blaine and Spring Lake Park.

Learn more about MnDOT’s 47/65 study

METRO F Line bus rapid transit (Metro Transit)

The METRO F Line will serve the Central Avenue corridor, largely replacing Route 10 from downtown Minneapolis to Northtown Mall via Central and University avenues.
Sign up for F Line project emails to be notified as the project progresses.

Learn more about the Central Avenue Metro F Line

Johnson Street NE reconstruction (City of Minneapolis)

The City of Minneapolis reconstructed Johnson Street NE between18th and Lowry avenues Northeast to include pedestrian, bicycle and infrastructure improvements. This project was completed in 2021.

Learn more about the City of Minneapolis' Johnson Street NE reconstruction

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

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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