Start of Construction on New Mississippi East Bank Trail Pushed Back to July

Via an June 15 e-newsletter from the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board:

Start of construction delayed, but trail still scheduled to open by the end of October

A number of issues have delayed the start of construction on the new Mississippi East Bank Trail. Most notably, contraction execution took longer than anticipated and several upcoming major events are using the Scherer site for parking, which would interfere with construction.

The trail is still scheduled to be complete by the end of October. The pavement will be in place in early fall, followed by landscaping improvements and lighting installation. Construction was originally scheduled to begin in May.

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About the project

The Mississippi East Bank Trail is a two-way, off-street trail along the Northeast Minneapolis riverfront that will serve both pedestrians and bicyclists.

It will extend north from Boom Island Park through the Scherer site, the Graco property and Sheridan Memorial Park. Its alignment curves east at the BNSF railroad tracks near 16th Avenue NE and terminates at Marshall Street NE. Bicyclists and pedestrians will share the southern half of the trail until Sheridan Memorial Park, where a separate pedestrian trail will break out and run next to the bike trail until it reaches the BNSF tracks.

The Mississippi East Bank Trail project page contains an aerial map of the trail’s alignment through Above the Falls Regional Park. This new trail is one segment in a series of Upper Riverfront trail loops envisioned in the RiverFirst initiative.