Each of these has a page written about Baldwin specifically.
The lots worth sealing in Baldwin are the hospital campus on Bergslien Street, the plant yards in the two industrial parks, the store lots on Cedar Street and the aprons at Exit 19. Minnesota has banned the sale and use of coal tar sealer statewide since 2014, so a management company in the east metro often carries a no-coal-tar line in its spec, and that line follows the building across the river. Wisconsin has no statewide ban and neither Baldwin nor St. Croix County has passed one, so nothing local decides it here. We run an asphalt emulsion, which is the same answer for a spec that asks and a spec that doesn't.
Crack Filling and Sealing
A lot at the interchange takes loaded trucks over the same path all day, and a crack in that path opens faster than one out in the parking rows. St. Croix County's ground is glacial moraine, anything from clay through to boulders, and frost works it every winter. Wide cracks get routed to a clean face first, and the rubber goes in at 400 degrees so it reaches the bottom of the crack and bonds to the walls. Cold pour out of a pail lifts out in strips by spring.
Asphalt Repair and Patching
Exit 19 is usually where the worst of it is. Truck stop aprons, fuel islands and the drives feeding them take turning weight from loaded trucks, and once that shows up as a pothole it's a base problem rather than a surface one. The plant yards on VandeBerg Street and Evergreen Street are the other kind of lot in town, where the pavement that carries trucks is a small part of a big surface. Either way the repair is cut back square to sound asphalt, the base dug out to something firm and rebuilt, then hot mix rolled in flush.
The lots with storm structures in them here are the big flat ones: the hospital campus off the interstate, the two industrial parks and the pavement around the interchange. A basin under a truck route takes weight all day, and the joint between the frame and the structure is where twenty winters of water gets in. The sign is never the grate; it's the asphalt breaking up in a ring around it. Rebuilt means the structure, a new collar and the asphalt keyed back in at the right pitch.
The hospital on Bergslien Street is a public lot, and public means ADA stalls and access aisles at the federal dimensions, fire lanes marked, and a layout a first-time visitor can read. The school lots are the same kind of job on a different calendar. At Exit 19 the question changes again: a truck stop lot has to hold trucks and trailers in a layout that lets them get back out. All of it gets measured and chalked before paint, and a restripe on a sealed lot waits for the sealer to cure.
Track and Athletic Surfaces
Baldwin-Woodville Area High School is on 13th Avenue with a little over 500 students, and the district fields boys' and girls' track and field and tennis. Greenfield Elementary is in the village too and the middle school is in Woodville. District voters passed a facilities referendum for building upgrades. Track and court work anywhere is a summer-window job, and every district in this part of the state is working the same few weeks.
Dumpster pads behind the Cedar Street stores, dock aprons at the plants on VandeBerg and Evergreen Street, curb and gutter around the hospital campus. A pad gets sized for the front axle of a loaded refuse truck rather than for the container standing on it. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar, and the asphalt around them gets keyed back in.
TID No. 7 is 258 acres at the south end of the village, created to bring industrial and commercial development in, and the I-94 Industrial Park and Baldwin East are the two parks the village markets to builders. An apartment complex is going up on Gracie Drive next to the interstate. A new lot goes down on a graded, compacted, drained base or it doesn't go down at all, because the base decides how long the surface lasts. On a lot that's already there the choice is overlay or tear-out, and it comes down to whether that base is still sound.
