Technology Drive is an east-west street on the south side of Trunk Highway 5. It carries a fair amount of traffic from Mitchell Road to Prairie Center Drive and back again. It serves St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, ADC, MTS, SouthWest Station, Wells Fargo Financial and the City’s Water Treatment Plant along this stretch. West of it’s intersection with Mitchell, it serves Eaton, the City’s Street Maintenance Facility, the School District’s transportation center and a number of small businesses in the Wallace Road area.
The section of Technology Drive from Mitchell to Prairie Center Drive is about to get a major sprucing up. The road was improved last year to a four lane design. Now this year we are going to improve the “steetscape”. Streetscape is a word we use in city government to describe the look & feel of the street and the City right-of-way land adjacent to the street. City staff have been working on a major streetscaping plan for Technology Drive. We shared it with the City Council at their June 5 Council meeting. The Council is scheduled to award the contract for the project at its next Council meeting on June 19.
The plan incorporates brick entry features at the NE and SE quadrants of the intersection of Mitchell and Technology, along with trees and new lighting from that point east. We think it’s going to be quite attractive and set a new standard for streetscaping throughout Eden Prairie.
We anticipate awarding the contract for the project next week and completing the project this year.
