Commercial · I-94 and I-90 Southeast to La Crosse
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 Black River Falls. About 50 minutes southeast of Eau Claire on I-94, and the estimate is free.
Black River Falls is the seat of Jackson County, a city of about 3,600 sitting on Exits 115 and 116 of I-94, roughly 51 road miles southeast of Eau Claire. Highway 54 runs east from the interstate past the industrial park and the casino property, and that stretch carries most of the newer commercial surface in town. The Ho-Chunk Nation has its headquarters here.
The Black River Falls Industrial Park sits against Highway 54 and I-94, more than 100 acres with water, sewer and rail, and the city counts more than 15 businesses in it. Land O' Lakes, Nelson Global, Meisters Forest Products, Regal Beloit and Antler King are on the city's tenant list. The state has 75.89 contiguous acres in the park certified as buildable, industrially zoned and rail served, with no wetlands and nothing in a floodplain.
The other large surfaces are the casino property on Highway 54 east, where the Ho-Chunk Nation's expansion added hotel rooms, a rebuilt bingo hall, new roadways, a high-capacity loading dock and more parking, and Black River Memorial Hospital on West Adams Street, which runs with the Krohn Clinic as Black River Health. Three hotels sit at the Exit 116 interchange, and the retail the city lists off the interstate includes Black River Plaza, a Kwik Trip, an Arby's, an O'Reilly, a Theisen's and a Chrysler dealer. Jackson County, the school district and the hospital are named among the largest employers in town.
Around Black River Falls: Ho-Chunk Gaming Black River Falls on Highway 54, Black River Memorial Hospital on West Adams Street, Black River State Forest, Lake Arbutus, The old Union High School building.
3,563 people, 2024 Census estimate.
Jackson County is listed with Wisconsin's Central Plain, a flat sandy stretch at 700 to 800 feet, part of which was the bed of Glacial Lake Wisconsin.
Each of these has a page written about Black River Falls specifically.
The lots worth sealing here are the industrial park's off Highway 54, the hospital's on West Adams, the hotel lots at the Exit 116 interchange and the casino property east of the interstate. Sealer is a wear layer over the top of the asphalt, so it buys you the surface and nothing underneath it, and a lot that's already coming apart gets the repair first and the sealer after. A lot that size gets measured rather than eyeballed, and the number is fixed before anything starts.
Jackson County sits on the sandy flat of Wisconsin's Central Plain, 700 to 800 feet up, part of it the old bed of a glacial lake. Ground like that moves with the frost, and an open crack takes water straight down into the base where the moving happens. Wide ones get routed out first so the rubber has a clean wall to bond to, and it goes in hot at 400 degrees. Filled before the ground freezes is the difference between a crack that's closed in April and one that's wider.
The park off Highway 54 is rail served and the trucks come in and out loaded, and the casino property has a high-capacity loading dock on it. Dock approaches and truck lanes are where the failures start, because a loaded axle finds the soft spot long before a car does. A repair in one of those gets cut back square to sound asphalt and rebuilt from the base up. Skimming over a truck lane buys a season.
The industrial park off Highway 54 and the casino lots are the big flat surfaces here, and a big flat lot puts a lot of water into a few structures. A storm structure in a lot fails at the joint between the frame and the barrel, and by the time the asphalt around the grate is breaking up the frame has been moving for years. Fixing it means the structure itself, a new collar and the asphalt keyed back in at the pitch that carries water to it.
The casino property runs hotel, dining and event parking on one site, which means bus and RV stalls as well as cars, and the hospital and the county's buildings are public lots. Public lots mean ADA stalls and access aisles at the federal dimensions, on the shortest route to the doors, and fire lanes marked. A restripe over a sealed lot goes on after the sealer has cured, and the layout gets measured and chalked before any paint hits the ground.
Black River Falls High School on Pierce Street has about 500 students and runs track and tennis in the Coulee Conference, and Western Technical College has a regional location in town. What a district actually has on the ground, and what's under it, is worth looking at before a number goes on it. Track and court work happens in the summer, and every district in the conference is working with the same few weeks.
Dumpster pads behind the hotels and the retail off Exit 116, dock aprons in the industrial park, curb and gutter around the hospital campus. A dock apron carries a trailer's landing gear, which is a point load standing in one place for hours rather than a rolling one, and that's what breaks an apron poured like a sidewalk. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar, and the asphalt around the pour gets keyed back in so the joint doesn't open the first winter.
Anything that opens a street, a curb or a public walk in Black River Falls needs a permit from the Street Superintendent first, and the city won't grant one while the ground is frozen unless the Superintendent decides the opening can't wait. Once the permit is issued the work has to be finished within 30 days. Replacement sidewalk goes in to the specifications the Board of Public Works sets, and an entrance built across a walk is paved to that same sidewalk standard, with curb returns restored wherever curb comes out. A commercial or industrial entrance can run up to 36 feet at the street edge of the walk, where a residential one stops at 24. A driveway permit application has to show the property lines, the width of the opening, and every other driveway and street intersection within 150 feet of it.
The industrial park has 75.89 contiguous acres certified buildable, industrially zoned and rail served, with no wetlands and no floodplain on it, and the city has an open district for a second phase of the park. On new ground the base decides how long the surface lasts, so it gets graded, compacted and drained before any mix goes near it. On the lots that are already built the question is an overlay or a tear-out, and which one depends on whether the base under the old surface is still sound.
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