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Efforts to restore downtown are progressing steadily. On Wednesday afternoon, Knife Lake Concrete completed the last of the concrete sidewalks and driveways along Phase 4. Clearing the area for Lakes Country Landscaping to begin planting the new grasses in boulevards Thursday afternoon. This effort will continue with grasses and trees being installed through the rest…

Outside of the City Limits, cleanup of the rural sections of the project has started, with Ottertail Aggregate completing the shouldering along County Highway 80 on both the east and west sides of town on Wednesday. On Thursday, Ottertail Aggregate swept the roadway edges where the new shouldering was completed to clean the edges of…

Construction has occurred on all four phases of the project this week, with Parson’s Electric, Central Specialties, R.L. Larson, Aqua Lawn, Knife Lake Concrete, and Ottertail Aggregate working throughout Main Street. On Monday morning, Central Specialties began paving the final course of pavement on County Highway 80 from U.S. Highway 10 west of town. With…

Restoration continues on Main Street with various crews working on multiple phases throughout the project. Outside of the City Limits, the Stabilized Full-Depth Reclamation was completed early this week on the east side of town. On Monday, Central Specialties began paving County Highway 80 from Highway 10 into town, finishing the first two lifts of…

Construction continues on Seventh Avenue Southeast, County Highway 80 both east and west of the City, and Phase 4 on the project. Throughout the week crews have continued in the various phases of the project with differing activities in each Phase. Downtown on Phase 4, Parson’s Electric has continued to prepare the First Avenue intersection…

Multiple crews continue to work on various portions of the Main Street project, working on Saturday to keep the project moving forward. On the reclamation portion of the project (west of County 34 and east of 5th Avenue Southeast) R.L. Larson has continued to remove the top five inches of reclaimed pavement and aggregate to…

Construction crews have been busy over the course of the past week working both on improvements downtown on Phase 4 and on the edges of the City to Highway 10 both on the east and west side of town. Early this week, All States Pavement Recycling completed the initial reclamation of the surface on the…

Project Update Various construction crews have been working on multiple portions of Main Street throughout the week, with activities occurring on Phase 4 (First Avenue to Fourth Avenue West) and on the west side of town outside of the City Limits. Early this week, the intersection of Main Street and First Avenue removals occurred, with…

Project Update Main Street construction has started again! On Tuesday, a majority of the new detour redirecting traffic from Main Street west of First Avenue was setup and on Wednesday, removals on Phase 4 began. Ottertail Aggregate has been working on the removals and started west of the intersection of First Avenue to leave the…