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“This was such an unknown [for private developers] in terms of their financial liability,” <br />Worthington said. “They had a difficult time wrapping their arms around what it would cost.” <br />St. Paul-based Carl Bolander and Sons finished the cleanup work on time and on budget, <br />Worthington said. <br />How big of a job was it? <br />Putting it in perspective, the county said Bolander removed 49 miles of material including <br />400,000 tons of concrete and asphalt, 43,700 feet of railroad track, 39,000 feet of fencing, and <br />nearly 178,000 feet of piping, from gas mains to sanitary pipe. <br />Building demolition at the site began in May 2013. <br />Roughly 93 percent of the materials hauled off the site were recycled or reused, said Todd <br />Planting, project manager for Bolander, which partnered with Wenck Engineering on the project. <br />A significant portion of that is pavement, as well as concrete, steel materials and rebar from old <br />structures. Heavy timber framing material included old growth Douglas fir, Planting said. <br />“That was deconstructed and salvaged and it will be re-milled and incorporated into new <br />construction,” Planting said. <br />Worthington said the county was required to clean the property at least to commercial/industrial <br />standards, but opted to spend an additional $1.5 million to get it to the higher residential level. <br />“We wanted to make sure we made the development potential as flexible as possible,” <br />Worthington said. <br />Development is expected to play out in stages over nearly 10 years, but things could start to <br />happen there in 2016 or 2017, Worthington said. <br />For now, the county is working with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to verify the <br />cleanup work, and it will then ask the agency to de-list the property as a Superfund site for soil <br />contamination. <br />Meanwhile, a number of area road improvements are just completed or in the works, including <br />the $27 million County Road H/I-35W interchange project. Construction is expected to start this <br />spring. <br />The Minnesota Department of Transportation just completed an $11.7 million diverging diamond <br />interchange at County Road 95 and I-35W in the TCAAP area. Worthington said it’s the first <br />interchange of its kind in Ramsey County. <br />Last month, the county agreed to acquire an additional 93 acres for a multi-use trail to serve the <br />TCAAP site.