Lowry Bridge Construction RFP
Hennepin County will send out a request for proposals in August for the construction of the new Lowry Avenue Bridge.
The contracts will be awarded this fall, shortly before work is scheduled to begin.
The replacement bridge, projected to cost approximately $80 million, was designed by San Francisco-based infrastructure consulting firm T.Y. Lin International, which has an office in Edina. will feature a steel, basket-handle arch design.
Coeur DAlene, Idaho-based Advanced Explosives Demolition Inc. is scheduled to implode the existing bridge on Sunday. Then St. Paul-based Carl Bolander & Sons Co. will clear the debris from the rivers main channel within 24 hours of the implosion.
Construction on the new bridge will start in October and take about two years to complete.
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