Challenge
100 acres of a former automobile scrap yard in Andover, Minnesota lay dormant with hazardous soil and asbestos. The site was considered brownfield, and needed remediation before it could be redeveloped into a new commercial development site.
Solution
The City of Andover hired SEH to provide multi-disciplined services to support the redevelopment of a 100-acre contaminated automotive salvage site for use as commercial property. The project’s street, utility, and site grading improvements required the team to balance site improvements with contamination remediation and on-site wetland mitigation. The team worked in coordination with an adjacent landfill property and the local watershed district to minimize collateral impacts.
Project
Andover North Station Area Redevelopment
Location
Andover, Minnesota
Client
City of Andover
Features
- Redevelopment of approximately 100-acre contaminated automotive salvage site
- Street, utility, and site grading improvements for new commercial use
- 42-foot-wide roadway, approximately a half mile long
- Boulevard treatment included a sidewalk, trail, lighting, and landscaping
- Onsite wetland mitigation created and hydraulically supported by adjacent storm pond infiltration
- Significant environmental remediation work performed to clean up contaminated soils
- Coordination with adjacent landfill property (superfund site)
- Significant coordination with the local watershed district for wetland impacts
Services
- Civil Engineering
- Environmental Engineering