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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 04-30 Mall Road Projects Hearing Thursday DISPATCH He,aring Turs By Jim Broede tante of about - a half Staff Writer mile. A seven-phase, $8.4 That road, plus utili- million road construe- aties along the route, car- tion program designed b k • ries a price tag of to handle increased traf- $651,041, based on cost fic in the vicinity of the estimates prepared by new Maplewood Mall Howard, Needles, Tan- shopping center will be • men & Bergendoff considered Thursday ° (HNTB), consulting en- night at a public hear- gineers and planners re- ing. � tained by Maplewood to And B. D. Collier, Ma- COLLIER study traffic problems in plewood's city engineer, suggested at a joint The shopping complex, northeast Maplewood. meeting of Maplewood's longer than the IDS Most of the first phase and North St. Paul's city Building in. Minneapolis construction, based on councils last week that is tall, sprawls over the the plans developed by northwest corner of HNTB will be east of firsthephase forad cannot the ntibee White Bear and Beam White Bear Avenue. avenues. And the specific proj- any too sono. The first phase propos- ects, according to F:ngi- Sears Roebuck Co, in- p p neer Collier, are geared tends to open a depart- al also includes con- ment store adjacent to struction of a major ac- to divert traffic away cess to the shopping cen- from . the Maplewood the mall May l. Pp g And most of -the 120 ter from the east — Heights neighborhood. _ `v shops in the mall are ex- oodlyn Avenue from The new streets also petted to follow by late White Bear Avenue to will serve present and summer or early fall. McKnight Road, a dis- See Mall Page 4 "The traffic is there now," Collier stated in defense of proceeding with the first phase. "We should start con- struction very shortly," he added, "in order to keep traffic away from the surrounding residen- tial areas." The first phase con- struction with a total cost estimated by Collier at $2 million, will be spelled out at the hear- ing. There's n.uch public interest in it, one reason why the hearing will be in -the gymnasium at John Glenn Junior High School, 1560 E. County Road B starting at 7:30 p.m. Actually,, one of seven road projects in the first phase already has been ' ordered by the Maple- wood City Council: con- ' struction of Beam Ave- nue from Hazelwood Av- enue to Hwy.61. Beam, .w h i c h will serve as a major access from the west to the Ma- plewood Mall, was con- structed last Year from hazel wood to White Bear avenues_ _ Ma I I CA114 /" Continued from Page 1 aU,vrit planned shopping areas 'homes valued in excess auxiliary to the mall. of $40,000, say that's the Two of the most con- last thing they, want — troversial aspects of through-street traffic. phase one are extensions HNTB spokesmen and of Lydia and Beam Ave- some city officials say nues. that cannot be avoided Lydia would be con- forever, but they have strutted from Furness tentatively scheduled to Ariel streets and from the construction of the White Bear Avenue to a final links for "through cul-de-sac just west of streets" in the seventh Ariel Street. and final phase of the Beam Avenue. mean- construction program. while, would be built Collier suggests that from White Bear Avenue may be 20 years away. to a cul-de-sacjust west But City Councilmen of Frederick Street. John Greavu and Norm In both instances, that Andersonwarn that it leaves gaps of a few could happen in three to hundred feet. which. five years. when completed. will Other projectsin the make them through first phase include con- streets. s t r u c t i o n of about a Some residents along quarter mile of Ariel the road s, who own Street from County Road D. to Lydia Avenue, plus the restricting of Radatz Avenue to right turns off White Bear Avenue. Maplewood Awards Sportsmanship Trophies Sportsmanship t r o- phies were awarded a coach and playground f o r exemplifying out- standing conduct during the Maplewood Parks a n d Recreation pro- gram. Jim Bucher, a coach of a pee wee hockey team from the Parkside area, won.the individual honor and the Carver area teams in baseball, softball and hockey won the overall playground award.