Hennepin County, in coordination with the City of Minneapolis, is making it safer and easier to travel on Franklin Avenue (County Road 5). From fall 2025 through 2027, we will reconstruct the road between Lyndale (County Road 22) and Chicago avenues.
In fall 2025, we will reconstruct Franklin Avenue between Chicago Avenue and just east of Portland Avenue.
You can expect directional closures at locations where we reconstruct Franklin Avenue. Crews will first begin work on the north side of Franklin Avenue, then move to the south side of the road later in the fall.
Eastbound Franklin Avenue will close between Portland and Chicago avenues.
This segment of Franklin Avenue, between Lyndale and Chicago avenues, is currently an urban roadway with two lanes of traffic in each direction, off-peak parking in various locations, and no designated bikeways. When this project is complete, Franklin Avenue will have:
From 2019 to 2020, and from spring 2022 to fall 2024, we asked the community near Franklin Avenue about how we could improve the road and make it safer for everyone, including those that walk, bike, roll, take transit, and drive. We used that feedback, along with technical data and city and county policies, to create a final plan for Franklin Avenue.
