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And we thought winter and road construction could not exist toge by Dave McClung M ost years road construction time, the ramp from Hamline Avenue to season ends and winter season westbound US Highway 10 opened with appears just days later. This at Hamline Avenue and County Road F and year, winter came too early. Construcends (early, we hope) and construction - tion crews that have been working in and quadrant of that intersection. At the same ramps up again, crews will be back in this around Arden Hills for two years area to complete landscaping. road construction projects before Father Winter blew in with ice, after a full construction season, snow, and very cold weather. The but MnDOT tells us that some most noticeable overlap of sea - sons was seen at the intersection when the next construction sea - of US Highway 10 and County son starts. Road 96. When County and City snow Left: Westbound Highway 96 at - US Highway 10 bridge. fall of the winter season, they had to dodge orange construc - tion barrels on County Road 96. Construction crews ran out of time to complete the sound wall on the north side of County Road 96 (along Arden Manor Manufactured at the two intersections of County Road 96 and Old Highway 10 and Round Lake Right: Eastbound Highway 96 Road. The orange barrels stayed in place at Round Lake Road for a couple of weeks with snow piling intersection up until crews could complete some work that needed to be done this year. On December 18, MnDOT emailed its regular project update and announced that County Road 96 was open to two lanes of Goodwill store proposed for Arden Hills by Susan Cathey Avenue and the I-35W bridge. MnDOT A A proposal has been submitted to the Proceeds from Goodwills retail stores A advised that some work would continue A provide the main funding for the organi City of Arden Hills by the Davidson A - Corporation for the construction and lease zations career training and counseling zations career training and counseling signals may not be functional until later of a building at the corner of Lexington program worldwide. Because the success this winter or spring, depending on the Avenue and County Road E to Goodwill of the stores is primarily based on receiv weather. Barrels can still be seen at the - Industries. The proposed project is a one-ing high quality donated goods for resale sides of the road because the curbing is story, approximately 17,000 square foot at the same location, Goodwills goal is to building to be used as a Goodwill store. locate their new stores in desirable com spring. - munities such as Arden Hills. The building would County Road 96 has now been totally include an inside The proposal for this devel rebuilt from Highway 61 in White Bear - drop-off area on the opment was scheduled to Lake to the Round Lake Road intersec - north side, as well as two docking areas go to the Arden Hills Planning Commis tion. Only a couple hundred feet of - for a semi-trailer and a trash compactor sion on January 8 and would tentatively reconstruction remain. The County Road located behind the building and screened be considered by the City Council at its 96 bridge across I -35W is scheduled to from view. Plans call for trees, shrubs and meeting on January 27. the total reconstruction. particularly along the Lexington Avenue side and the border with e-Street Flats. 4