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.
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.
When complete, this section of Lowry Avenue will feature:
View the phase 1 project layout (PDF)
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.
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.
The project team hosted on open house at the Bottineau Recreation Center.
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.