Commercial · Highway 53 North to Spooner
Parking lot sealcoating, crack filling, patching, catch basin repair, striping, concrete pads and aprons, concrete repair to walks, curb and approaches, and lot paving for commercial properties in Barron. About an hour north of Eau Claire, up Highway 53 and west on Highway 8, and the estimate is free.
Barron is the county seat of Barron County, a city of about 3,700 an hour north of Eau Claire: up Highway 53, then five miles west on Highway 8. County government is here, the Jennie-O plant is here, and the industrial park sits next to the municipal airport with rail service and four- to eight-acre lots ready to build.
The biggest employer in the county is in this town. Jennie-O's Barron plant, part of Hormel, has 1,800 people, and in 2024 it stopped harvesting turkeys and became a further-processing plant, with modernization money going into the building. The county's Government Center on East Monroe Avenue, the Justice Center on Highway 25 north of town and the Highway Department on North 7th Street are all here, and Mayo Clinic Health System's Northland hospital is in town.
The city puts its count at more than 200 businesses and industries. The lots that matter for pavement are the plant's, the county's, the hospital's, the high school's on East Woodland Avenue, and the industrial park's, with the rail spur and the airport next door.
Around Barron: Barron County Government Center on East Monroe Avenue, Barron County Justice Center on Highway 25, The Jennie-O plant, Barron High School, Kiwanis Park on the Yellow River.
3,674 people, 2024 Census estimate.
Silty glacial till, outwash sand and pockets of organic soil are all normal ground in this corner of the state, and a lot can cross more than one of them.
Each of these has a page written about Barron specifically.
The lots worth sealing in Barron are big, flat and institutional: the plant, the county's three campuses, the hospital, the high school on East Woodland Avenue. They get measured, and the number is fixed before we start. There's no coal tar ban in Barron County, and we run an asphalt emulsion regardless.
A county lot or a plant lot here sits on the same silty till as the rest of northwestern Wisconsin, and it moves with the frost. Cracks that are routed and filled hot before the ground freezes are the ones still closed in April. Cold pour lifts out in strips.
The heavy traffic here is trucks: in and out of the Jennie-O plant, county highway equipment on North 7th Street, freight at the industrial park with its rail spur. A failed area in a truck lane is a base failure, and it's cut back square to sound asphalt and rebuilt from the base up.
A storm structure in a plant lot or a county lot takes a lot of water off a big flat surface, and the joint between the frame and the structure is where twenty winters get in. By the time the asphalt around the grate is breaking up, the structure underneath has usually been moving for years. Rebuilt properly means the structure, a new collar and the asphalt keyed back in.
The Government Center, the Justice Center and the hospital are public lots, which means ADA stalls and access aisles at the federal dimensions, fire lanes marked, and a layout the public can read the first time through. A restripe goes on after the sealer has cured.
Barron High School runs track and field and tennis. The town's six tennis courts are the complex at Kiwanis Park on the north side of the Yellow River, built in 2016 with the school district paying most of the cost. Court and track work is a summer-window job.
Dock aprons and pads at the plant and the industrial park, curb and gutter around the county buildings. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar, and a dumpster pad is sized for the truck that empties it rather than for the container.
The common council can order any walk it finds defective repaired or replaced, and Barron's code gives the owner 30 days from service of the notice before the city does the work and puts the cost on the tax roll as a special tax (42-60). The permit comes from the city street commissioner at least seven days ahead of the work, and the city charges nothing for it. Barron's build spec for a walk in front of a commercial or industrial building is generally eight feet wide and at least five inches thick, going to seven inches where it crosses a driveway approach. The same section keeps traffic off fresh concrete for 48 hours, and for 96 hours when the temperature is under 50 degrees. Business frontage here sits on Highway 8 and Highway 25, and an approach onto a state trunk highway is permitted by the state under Wis. Stat. 86.07(2)(a) and Trans 231.
The Barron Industrial Park has level four- to eight-acre lots with the utilities in, rail service and the airport next door. A new lot goes down on a graded, compacted, drained base first, because the base is what decides how long the surface lasts.
What property owners and managers here ask, answered.
More about commercial workTell us about the property and we'll come measure it. You get a written price before anything starts.
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