This is on the site of the old high school, across Bemidji Avenue from BSU.The first construction phase consists of a four-story, 396 by 82 foot-building on Bemidji Avenue with commercial space for six businesses on the ground floor and 42 total apartments on the three floors above. Construction on Phase I is planned to begin in April 2015 and finish by April 2016.
The complex, managed by the Duluth-based Center City Housing Corp., includes 60 units, with 40 dedicated to single-room occupancy for those with chronic substance abuse problems and 20 efficiency apartments for the recently homeless. The goal of the development is to give safe housing to those individuals while facilitating their needs through off-premise services such as addiction treatment and mental health care.
By updating the infrastructure, officials are also hoping to make the highway stretch safer, especially considering the anticipated growth. According to data from MnDOT, the corridor has been listed as a critical crash location, with 180 collisions happening from 2011-2015.
Many of the collisions are because of the high amount of access points dotted along the corridor. In total, the stretch of highway has 64 access points where drivers can turn onto the road.
To create a corridor model appropriate for the 21st Century, though, MnDOT officials are trying something different for their project planning.
Unlike in the past, MnDOT District 2 officials are involving the public from the very beginning, with a series of community meetings scheduled the next few months, allowing residents to have input on what sort of changes are made along the way.
Boulevards would be great. I'm interested to see what they come up with. The only roundabout I can think of in Bemidji is in front of the Sanford Center arena. I do hope they lower the speed limit on Paul Bunyan Dr to 30mph. I doubt this happens as within the last couple years they for some reason raised the speed limit to 35mph. No one in Bemidji drives that fast so maybe it doesn't matter.mattaudio wrote: ↑February 11th, 2019, 8:02 pmSo this has less than 15,000 vehicles per day. It's clear lanes are no the problem, over-access is the problem.
I've always wondered why we don't see more stroad repairs where there's roundabouts or similar treatments every half mile-ish, and then full medians between each one to force right-in-right-out at every curb cut or minor intersection.
I spent a lot of time up in Bemidji in my youth, and lots of drives up and down ol' Paul Bunyan Drive and Bemidji Aves.
Six roundabouts: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aSZzg ... sp=sharing
Medians and RIRO between each: https://streetmix.net/MatthewSteele/57/ ... nyan-drive
Thanks for following the Streets.MN Forum, MnDOT District 2 engineers!mattaudio wrote: ↑February 11th, 2019, 8:02 pmSo this has less than 15,000 vehicles per day. It's clear lanes are no the problem, over-access is the problem.
I've always wondered why we don't see more stroad repairs where there's roundabouts or similar treatments every half mile-ish, and then full medians between each one to force right-in-right-out at every curb cut or minor intersection.
I spent a lot of time up in Bemidji in my youth, and lots of drives up and down ol' Paul Bunyan Drive and Bemidji Aves.
Six roundabouts: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aSZzg ... sp=sharing
Medians and RIRO between each: https://streetmix.net/MatthewSteele/57/ ... nyan-drive
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