Minnesota Streetscape Improvements Project

in progress

The Minnesota Street Grove is a lush and enchanting block-long park located in the heart of the Dogpatch neighborhood. Providing a serene walking path and habitat for a variety of animals, this park has become a beloved part of the community. In fact, it was first built by a dedicated group of Dogpatch and Potrero Hill residents in 2008, and has largely maintained by community members since. With the Minnesota Streetscape project, San Francisco Public Works is excited to collaborate with the communities that maintain and enjoy this beautiful green space to make it more usable, sustainable and accessible than ever before., San Francisco Public Works has hired Ronan Construction, Inc to perform a variety of roadway, electrical, drainage and landscape improvements both on Minnesota Street between 23rd and 25th Streets as well as on 23rd Street between Minnesota and Tennessee Streets., Within the Minnesota Street Grove specifically, we will be improving drainage, reinforcing a portion of its retaining wall, constructing new pathways with both decomposed granite and landscape concrete, designing and installing a new irrigation system, installing new custom-built benches and planting a variety of new plants. The goal of this work is to make this special community space even safer, more accessible and more sustainable than ever before. The improvements we will be making to the drainage and irrigation systems will also make future maintenance of the space less labor intensive and less impactful to surrounding areas., We will also be making renovations to the areas surrounding the grove. Minnesota Street will be fully repaved from 23rd Street to 25th Street, and a portion of the block between 23rd and 24th street will receive repairs to the concrete street base as well. We’ll be constructing four new ADA-compliant curb ramps at the 23rd and Minnesota intersection, while also extending the curb at the southeast corner of this intersection to decrease the crossing distance for pedestrians. We’ll be doing similar work at the 25th and Minnesota intersection, where we’ll be constructing three new curb ramps and a larger curb area at the northeast corner. To round out the accessibility improvements of this project, we’ll be reconstructing portions of the sidewalk around these new curb ramps., ,