Duluth to remove iconic downtown bricks

Workers install bricks on Superior Street on Oct. 6, 1985. From the Duluth News TribuneNews Attic.”

When I was a tiny little kid I remember seeing all the hubbub on the news about Duluth putting in bricks along a key downtown chunk of Superior Street. As an Iron Range tyke who only knew Duluth through the local TV affiliates, this only reinforced the city’s image to me as a sort of “Oz.” I remember how excited I was when a few years later I actually saw the bricks of downtown Duluth.

Anyway, Duluth is removing several sections of those bricks because they are in disrepair. Infrastructure concerns throughout downtown Duluth has the city stepping back to make a long-range decision about what to do with the increasingly popular downtown district, something that won’t be ready in time for the summer tourism season.

Comments

  1. Can we blame the logging trucks? They claim they *need* to run down Superior street to carry an extra 10,000 lbs. (12.5% more than the freeway), but with all the constant stop and go wasting gas, traffic and extra time, it seems they can’t even be breaking even. And they damage the road while they are doing it.

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