Business Advisory Council tours Hiawatha LRT facilities
(Left) Chris Weyer, who will be construction manager for the Central Corridor LRT Project, led a group from the project's Business Advisory Council on a tour Sept. 15 of the new Hiawatha LRT station and track extension being built at the new Minnesota Twins ballpark site. The track extension from the Warehouse Station to the new Minneapolis Multimodal Station will open in late 2009 to coincide with the opening of the Northstar commuter rail line, which will terminate below this site at the western edge of downtown Minneapolis. Central Corridor LRT trains will run the last mile in downtown Minneapolis over Hiawatha tracks to this new station, too, when the Twin Cities' second LRT line opens in 2014. Weyer's experience on the Hiawatha and Northstar construction projects gave BAC members a lot of confidence in the Central Corridor project's ability to accommodate business needs during construction. Weyer talks here with Jonathan Sage-Martinson of the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative and Learning Network and Karri Plowman of the Central Corridor Partnership. The funders collaborative and the partnership were established to help businesses survive the construction period, which will begin in 2010.
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