When a rental contract was concluded, the then mayor, Stéphanie Acri, called it a “modest inconvenience” for the public.

City leaders said they were happy to cooperate, as their offer of riverside land promised to speed up the process of building the bridge by sparing Lunda the need for steel parts. 130 feet long on barges in the Mississippi River.

Instead, the company used a large city parking lot to store steel and raised portions of the riverside to accommodate a steel loading system. A track-shaped conveyor belt rolls the giant beams from the parking lot across Old River Drive (temporarily closed) to the riverside, where they are loaded onto a barge and moved a short distance downstream to ‘at the bridge construction site.

Before the public can return to this location, Lunda has considerable restoration work to do on the land he used. Read more.

3. The Knights finish with a flurry, advance to semi-final 1A

It was hardly child’s play.

Heat, multiple injuries and a stingy Sioux City Heelan goalkeeper provided a firm test for the Davenport Assumption women’s football team on Tuesday.