Minnesota Department of Transportation

511 Travel Info

Highway 5/East 7th Street and Highway 61/Arcade Street

St. Paul and Maplewood

Business

We recognize that construction projects impact your business. We want the E. 7th St. and Arcade St. in St. Paul and Maplewood project area business community to stay informed before, during and after this project. This page is your one-stop resource page throughout construction. We will continue to add information, so please check back.

Tools for businesses during construction

The following are tools to assist you as you communicate with your customers, employees, suppliers and vendors. If you have additional questions do not hesitate to contact us.

Social media toolkit

As construction continues on Arcade St., we want to help your business thrive during this period of disruption. We're offering digital tools to help your customers find you and navigate around construction zones.

How we can support you:
  • Ready-to-use social media post (see social media toolkit link below)
  • Individualized graphics for your communications (see individualized business access map section below)
  • Translations of materials are available upon request
What you can do:
  • Share the provided content on your social media channels
  • Forward information to your customers/email subscribers
  • Display wayfinding information to your business
  • Reach out to us to discuss construction questions and concerns, and how we can support you

The social media content linked below is ready to use. Simply copy and paste or customize it for your audience. We recommend all posts on social media include text and the image. For translated materials, questions, or concerns, please contact us.

Thank you for your partnership during this project.

Individualized business access map

We have created business access maps for businesses on Arcade St. If you would like a version made for your business, please email or call the project team.

Email for project updates

A great way to stay connected to all happenings within the project is through our weekly emailed project updates. Sign up to receive these important updates.

Project button

Embed this linkable image onto your website or Intranet for employees and customers seeking information about a construction project:

452x131 linkable button to add to a website

We recommend inserting the above image in your Home, About or Contact Us page, then embedding the link to the E. 7th St. and Arcade St. in St. Paul and Maplewood project page within the image. The link to that page is: mndot.gov/metro/projects/e7th-arcade. If you require more detailed instructions about how to set up the image, please contact us.