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METRO Green Line Extension Construction Update: September 5, 2025
Featured Photo: Bassett Creek Valley Station Plaza
The newly completed station plaza as well as lighting and overhead catenary systems infrastructure at the Bassett Creek Valley Station in Minneapolis are shown in the photo above.
Construction Highlights
Updates by city
Minneapolis
General Note on Minneapolis after-hours construction activities:
The contractor will continue to schedule work that extends into evenings and weekends in Minneapolis. Work scheduled outside of normal working hours is time-sensitive – either on a critical path to reopening a road, trail, or sidewalk, or work that occurs within proximity to freight rail track but must be performed outside of freight rail operations windows. Community members can expect targeted after-hours work throughout the corridor in 2025. We will work to update community members on anticipated activities.
Upcoming:
- Weekend work: Work is expected to occur over the next two weekends in the rail corridor and adjacent work sites between West Lake Street and Royalston Avenue/Farmers Market stations for activities such as those listed below. Weekend work has been authorized by the City of Minneapolis between the hours of 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM unless otherwise noted. Crews may be onsite and preparing for work activities before start times.
- Royalston Avenue, Border Avenue, Holden Street N Loop: soil grading
- Fremont Avenue N between Glenwood Avenue and 2nd Avenue N: soil grading
- Penn Avenue and Mount View Avenue: soil grading for sidewalk and curb
- Bassett Creek Valley and Bryn Mawr Station Areas: soil grading for trails and stormwater pond construction
- Bryn Mawr Station to West 21st Street Station Areas: soil grading for trails
- West 21st Street Station Area to Lake Street: soil grading for trails, curb, and sidewalk
- Cedar Lake Parkway Area/Burnham Road Area: soil grading for trails, curb, and sidewalk
- Lake Street Bridge to West Lake Street Station: soil grading for trails and station plaza
- Abbott and Chowen Avenues and Excelsior Boulevard: concrete work, soil grading, placement of tree soils in boulevard, and seeding
- West 21st Street at the railroad crossing will be in a single-lane configuration for concrete work starting September 8. This condition will be in place through the fall. Oncoming traffic will take turns crossing the railroad tracks.
Ongoing:
- Expect periodic lane closures on 7th Street North and 6th Street North near Target Field for sidewalk work.
- Expect lane closures in both eastbound and westbound directions on 7th Street North at Lyndale Avenue for median work.
- Roadway and utility work continues in the Royalston Avenue/Farmers Market Station area:
- Royalston Avenue is closed between Glenwood Avenue and Holden Street.
- Vehicle traffic is limited to a single lane southbound on Border Avenue from Olson Memorial Highway to Holden Street North; eastbound on Holden Street North from Border Avenue to Royalston Avenue; and northbound on Royalston Avenue.
- There is no parking on Border Avenue, Holden Street, and Royalston Avenue during construction. Construction activities are anticipated to extend through the fall. Access to local businesses is being maintained throughout construction. Detour information is on the detour maps page.
- Expect traffic impacts on Fremont Avenue North between 2nd Avenue North and Glenwood Avenue to finish sidewalk and landscaping work.
- A northbound outside lane closure on the Penn Avenue South I-394 bridge is in place for sidewalk, street lighting and accessible pedestrian ramp work. There is also a southbound inside lane closure on Penn Avenue just north of I-394 up to Mount View Avenue during this time.
- Cedar Lake Parkway is closed to vehicle traffic to conduct work across the rail corridor into the fall. Access to Burnham Road from Cedar Lake Parkway is also closed. The purpose of the closure is to complete utility, sidewalk, trail and roadway work. Trail access will be maintained in a temporary condition across the rail corridor until the final trail configuration is completed. Detour information is on the detour maps page.
- Areas near West Lake Street Station:
- The outside westbound lane and the north sidewalk on Excelsior Boulevard between Market Plaza and West 32nd Street are closed into September for new sidewalk and accessible pedestrian ramp construction. Local access for businesses and residents is being maintained throughout construction. Pedestrian detour information is on the detour maps page.
- The Chowen Avenue/West 31st Street/Abbott Avenue loop near West Lake Street Station is open in a one-way condition into the fall. Parking restrictions and sidewalk closures are effective on these roadways through fall.
- Parking restrictions are in place through fall on West 32nd Street for utility, road and sidewalk work.
St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Minnetonka and Eden Prairie Highlights
Upcoming:
- Lane restrictions will be in place at the intersection of Feltl Road and Smetana Road in Minnetonka beginning early fall to perform work on embankments in this area.
- As part of the Green Line Extension project, the Rowland Road Freight Rail Bridge in Minnetonka requires rehabilitation that includes pier, drainage, and slope paving modifications. This bridge rehabilitation project will start with roadway removals and impacts to traffic beginning September 8. A small section of Rowland Road will be converted into a single lane traffic pattern through the Rowland Road Bridge area. Roadway lane restrictions are anticipated through the end of the year.
- Light rail track maintenance activities are expected to occur in various locations throughout the rail corridor in Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, and Hopkins on weekends.
- Minor construction activities continue to occur throughout St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Minnetonka, and Eden Prairie. These activities are mostly confined to the rail corridor and station sites.Work By Others
Trail Highlights
Ongoing
- The segment of the Cedar Lake Regional Trail between Royalston Avenue and Azine Alley (just west of West River Parkway) is currently open but expect short term closures into the fall to complete work in the area beneath Royalston Avenue. Detour information during closures is on the detour maps page.
- The segment of the Cedar Lake Trail east of Van White Memorial Boulevard remains closed and is anticipated to reopen in late 2025.
- Cedar Lake Trail from Bryn Mawr Station to Van White Memorial Boulevard is open.
- The Kenilworth Trail from the Midtown Greenway to Bryn Mawr Station in Minneapolis remains closed and is anticipated to reopen in late 2025.
Project staff share the community’s desire to see the trails reopen as soon as possible. The project office will continue to work with the contractor to improve on these opening dates.