Park and Portland safety improvements project

About the project area

Hennepin County is planning to make safety improvements on Park and Portland Avenues (County Roads 33 and 35) between I-94 and 46th Street (County Road 46). Construction is anticipated to begin in 2027.

Park and Portland are a pair of one-way roads with buffered bike lanes that run from downtown through south Minneapolis. This safety project will:

Provide enhanced crossing opportunities for people walking, rolling and biking
Create safe, comfortable and convenient places for people biking
Implement design elements to calm vehicle travel speeds

Project one pagers

English (PDF)
Spanish (PDF)
Somali (PDF)

Community involvement

Ways to engage

We value your input to inform the development of the new design for Park and Portland avenues. The project team has hosted a range of engagement events at which we have collected your feedback on current conditions in the project area.

Your feedback provided the project team with insights on which roadway elements could be used to achieve project goals. Along with your feedback, we used city and county policies and plans, and technical information to create a proposed draft design concept for the corridor. You can view the proposed draft design concept and give us your feedback on our BeHeard Hennepin engagement page.

Engagement summaries

English (PDF)
Somali (PDF)
Spanish (PDF)

Past engagement

The project team has been at the following engagement events talking to community members about the project:

2025

Phelps Field Park on May 12
Green Central Elementary School Spring Festival on May 9
FRNNG’s Minnehaha Creek Duck Race on May 3
Midtown Greenway Coalition at Venture Bikes on April 26
Metro Transit stop (near Tacos El Kevin) on April 16
Ebenezer Park Apartments on April 1
Public open house at Park Avenue Methodist Church on February 13
- Open house presentation (English) (PDF, 9MB)
- Open house presentation (Somali) (PDF, 9MB)
- Open house presentation (Spanish) (PDF, 9MB)
- Draft design concept (PDF, 21MB)
- Open house summary (English) (PDF)
- Open house summary (Somali) (PDF)
- Open house summary (Spanish) (PDF)

2024

Peavey Park Field on October 1
Sabathani Community Center Fall Health Fair on October 5
American Swedish Institute Makers Night on October 10
Midtown Global Market Community Resource event on October 11
Seward Friendship Co-Op on October 23
Public open house at the American Swedish Institute on November 19

Project leadership

Hennepin County

Olagoke Afolabi
Project manager
olagoke.afolabi@hennepin.us
612-596-0311

City of Minneapolis

Peter Bennett
Transportation planner
peter.bennett@minneapolismn.gov
612-673-2460