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5 <br />About Rice Creek Commons <br />The site <br />Rice Creek Commons is located in Arden Hills, Minnesota, immediately east of Interstate <br />35W and north of Interstate 694. It is bordered on the north by County Road I and on the <br />south by U.S. Highway 10 and County Road 96. I-35W connects directly to downtown <br />Minneapolis to the south and U.S. Highway 10 connects through I-694 and I-35E to <br />downtown Saint Paul to the southeast. RCC is conveniently located 10 freeway miles to the <br />downtowns of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. <br />RCC is well-connected to the entire Twin Cities metropolitan area through road, <br />transit, and multi-use trail infrastructure. <br />• Two new freeway interchanges, one at Highway 96 and the other at County <br />Road H, are fully funded. The Highway 96 interchange was completed in <br />2015, and the County Road H interchange will be completed in 2016. Direct <br />access to County Road H from northbound I-35W will be added as a part of <br />these interchange improvements. <br />• A new County road (the Spine Road), designed to carry 40,000 vehicles per <br />day, will be built in 2017. <br />• More than four miles of bike and pedestrian trails will be built on the site, <br />connecting to the nationally recognized Twin Cities bikeway system. <br />• A natural resources corridor will meander through RCC. The natural resources <br />corridor will contain a regional storm water system and wetland mitigation to <br />be publicly owned and constructed in 2017. <br />• A regional waterway, Rice Creek, runs through the site and is accessible to area <br />lakes and the Mississippi River by canoe and kayak. <br />• A separately funded 202-acre Regional Trail Corridor adjacent to RCC <br />on the north and east sides of the site provides opportunities for local trail <br />connections to the Twin Cities area network of pedestrian and bicycle trails.