HomeMy WebLinkAbout1976 05-20 Shopping center road work needed, board told DISPATCH St.Paul Dispatch Thur., May 20, '76
Shopping center road work needed, board told
The regional shopping center of this decade, the Washington and County Road 16(Lower Af- should be served by four road no objection to providing access 40 per cent of the traffic generat-
planned by Dayton Hudson County Board was told Monday. ton Road),said Sheldon Johnson accesses. to the center from the county ed by the shopping center will
Properties in Woodbury proba- THAT MEANS road improve- of Barton-Aschman Associates, He called for two accesses off road. But the number and the use County Road 16.
bly will attract about 10,000 to ments are a"must"in the vicin- traffic-consultants retained by County Road 16 beteen Wood- exact locations,the board insist- More than half of the traffic,
12,500 cars daily before the end ity of the 106-acre site at I-494 Dayton Hudson. lane and Bielenberg drives.Two ed, should be determined only he said,will be on I-494.
Johnson said the 770,000- other entries are planned off Bi- after a study by the county engi- He warned that the off-ramp
square-foot complex, including elnberg Drive,he pointed out. neer. from the north on 1-494 will
three major department stores, The county board said it has JERRY AMUNDSON,a Day- have to be widened in order to
ton Hudson vice president, in- accommodate a left-turn lane.
formed the board that the shop- The off-ramp from the south,
ping center probably will be he said, probably will be ade-
open by late 1978 or early 1979. quate,due to the traffic turning
He told of plans to start con- right. However, signalization
struct ion next year. will be required at the,end of
Johnson predicted that about both of the ramps,he said.