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Article: Lowry Av. Bridge coming down today.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2009
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Byline: PAUL WALSH; STAFF WRITER
What went up -- 104 years ago -- will come down today.
The Lowry Avenue Bridge, a two-lane span connecting north and northeast Minneapolis over the Mississippi River, will succumb to the demolisher's charges at about 9 a.m. to make way for its successor in 2011. The blasts will free the steel structure from its piers, allowing gravity to pull the pieces into the river.
The two-lane bridge has been closed for more than a year, after being found structurally deficient. In 1958, in middle age, the steel open-grate bridge was substantially rebuilt on its original piers.
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