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Road Repairs:  Are They Really Done?

“There are two seasons in Minnesota:  winter, and road construction.”

–old joke

How do a couple hundred beleaguered Minneapolis homeowners near Cedar Lake — OK, me and my neighbors — know that the invading army of street repair, sewer, and gas contractors who’ve laid siege to the area since last June, are finally in retreat?

It’s not the form letters sent out by the Metropolitan Commission, the government entity supervising the work.

grass_seedIt’s not what CenterPoint Energy — whose gas lines are being relocated — is saying.

And it’s not even when the brand new asphalt street is laid down (just last week) — believe it or not, that’s supposed to be ripped up and replaced with more permanent concrete next Spring (how’s that for taxpayers getting their money’s worth?).

Safe to Wash Windows (Except for the Below-Zero Part)

Give up?

It’s when the boulevard gets sprayed with that fluorescent blue-green “seed foam.”

That indicates that the heavy equipment trundling up and down neighborhood streets all these months is finally gone, presumably for good, and that it’s safe to re-plant.

Or, at least, you hope it means that.

Hope #2:  they knew enough to aerate the (very) compacted soil first.

About the author

Ross Kaplan has 19+ years experience selling real estate all over the Twin Cities. He is also a 12-time consecutive "Super Real Estate Agent," as determined by Mpls. - St. Paul Magazine and Twin Cities Business Magazine. Prior to becoming a Realtor, Ross was an attorney (corporate law), CPA, and entrepreneur. He holds an economics degree from Stanford.

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