Infamous Potholes Face Repair

The Park & Seventh parking lot at the former A&P, now Twin Cities, has deteriorated quite a bit over the years. It was heartening to see heavy equipment on the lot today. The worst sinkage, aka the bathtub, is getting a whole makeover as this photo attests. In the old days, land was cleared by merely bulldozing everything and leveling it. However, there are many spots where the former contents of the lot, such as wooden structures, decomposed and settled. This happened at Park-Madison and some may recall the compacting equipment brought in to deliver earth-shaking blows to the debris-ridden land before new construction could commence.

All over the parking lot, lesser potholes were marked out for repairs. Good for the owners and good for Inspections (we hope) for seeing to it that this lot will become less of a hazard to motorists and pedestrians. Next up? We hope it will be Municipal Parking Lot 7, where walking is tricky due to the uneven paving. There is a promise that the lot will be fixed with proceeds of a deal with Paramount to use the lot for parking once new state offices are in place on East Fifth Street.

--Bernice Paglia