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Wis. Company to Oversee Stadium Construction
EPI, Walsh Team Up for O’Hare Project...32
Mississippi River between downtown St. Louis and St. Clair County, Illinois. This new bridge will move Interstate 70 off the Poplar Street Bridge (which currently carries three interstates and is the only interstate bridge into downtown
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The public board working with the Minnesota Vikings to build a stadium in downtown Minneapolis has turned to a Wisconsin company to oversee the project. The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority chose Madison, Wis.,-based Hammes Co. on Aug. 3 to serve as its representative on the project. In that role, Hammes will oversee project design and development, according to a Minneapolis Star Tribune report. Hammes served a similar role in the construction or renovation of several other NFL stadiums in recent years, including the renovation of Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Hammes has pledged to commit 45,000 work hours to the Minneapolis project at a cost that isn’t to exceed $7.8 million. The five-member stadium authority is the public watchdog on the $975 million project, of which nearly $500 million will come from public financing. Minnesota lawmakers gave the go-ahead this spring for the stadium that will be built on the site of the Metrodome in Minneapolis.
see BRIDGE page 48
see STADIUM page 48
The bridge towers on the Illinois and Missouri sides of the Mississippi River stand 400 ft.(122 m) tall.
Star Equipment Earns Mustang Award...38
New Mighty Miss Span Will Be Third Longest in U.S. By Jennifer Rupp CEG CORRESPONDENT
Rit chie Br os. Hol ds Pai r of Sa les i n Il l. . .. 94
The New Mississippi River Bridge (NMRB) project is a four-year construction project to build a cable-stayed bridge across the
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Minn. Bridge Collapse Artifacts Stay Out of Sight
Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................39-49
By Brian Bakst ASSOCIATED PRESS
Attachment Section ....55-59 Recycling Section ........71-85 Business Calendar ............89 Auction Section ........91-103 Advertisers Index............102
OAKDALE, Minn. (AP) To remember the collapse of a busy Minnesota highway bridge, state historians preserved items they thought would vividly convey the chaotic scene that unfolded back in 2007: a battered Interstate 35W sign, an emergency worker’s shirt, the back door of a school bus that young survivors used to escape. Five years later, most items collected from the rush-hour disaster that killed 13 people and
injured scores of others remain tucked away from public view, held back partly by concern that emotions may still be too raw for a museum display. “I don’t think it would be inconceivable that we would do an exhibition on the event,” said Adam Scher, a collections department curator of the Minnesota Historical Society. “I think perhaps more time does have to lapse before that would be appropriate.” One day, the collection might even feature mangled pieces of the bridge itself. In a garage half the size of a football field, the Minnesota Department of Transportation has kept steel
beams — some crumpled as though they were aluminum cans — and the sheered connector plates that first gave way. The fragments offer a frozen-in-time reminder of the devastating forces that sent the span tumbling into the Mississippi River below. At the time of the tragedy, historians knew that documenting the disaster would be a sensitive but essential task. They set out to collect items that could tell the story of Bridge No. 9340, its victims and those who rushed to the scene to help. They came away with the highway sign with see ARTIFACTS page 70