River Falls is off the interstate. Do you still come out here?

Yes, for commercial lots. It's about 63 miles from Eau Claire, an hour and twenty out I-94 and down Highway 35, and the city itself is about five minutes off the interstate. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.

The campus is a lot of separate lots. Does the whole thing get one number?

You get a number per area, not a lump. A student lot, a staff lot and a service drive carry different traffic and are in different shape, so each one gets measured and quantified on its own. That's what lets a purchasing office put this year's areas through and hold the rest.

Does track and court work go out as a formal bid?

Yes. You get a written scope with the quantities and a fixed number, in the form a district or a university purchasing office needs to put it in front of a board. Track and court surfaces are summer work, so the scope is worth settling well ahead of the season.

Commercial Lot Maintenance in River Falls, WI

Commercial Pavement Maintenance in River Falls, Wisconsin

Parking lot sealcoating, crack filling, patching, catch basin repair, striping, concrete pads and aprons, and lot paving for commercial properties in River Falls. About an hour and twenty minutes west of Eau Claire on I-94 and Highway 35, and the estimate is free.

The Lots and Surfaces in River Falls

River Falls is a city of about 17,800 straddling the Pierce and St. Croix county line, on the Kinnickinnic River south of the interstate. It's about 63 miles from Eau Claire, an hour and twenty minutes out I-94 and down Highway 35, and the city puts itself five minutes off the interstate and thirty from downtown St. Paul. Highways 29, 35 and 65 all serve it. The University of Wisconsin-River Falls is here, with about 5,300 students.

Four named parks hold the industrial ground. Mann Valley Corporate Park on the northwest side is the biggest inside the city limits, more than 200 acres zoned for office and light industrial with a single 155-acre lot in it. Sterling Ponds Corporate Park has four lots left over 15 acres, Whitetail Ridge Corporate Park has two lots over 12.5 acres with roughly a dozen businesses and an estimated 400 employees already on it, and the older River Falls Industrial Park has a three-acre lot and an area zoned heavy industrial. The Radio Road interchange, built in 2014, puts all of them straight onto Highway 35.

The rest of the commercial surface is the campus and the hospital. UW-River Falls runs about 5,300 students and opened a science and technology center in 2026, the largest construction project in the university's history. Allina Health's River Falls Area Hospital is on East Division Street, with two more clinics in town. River Falls High School is on Cemetery Road with about 1,100 students, and Chippewa Valley Technical College has a branch campus here. Foley United, Interfacial Solutions and Rush River Brewing are among the businesses the city puts on its own site.

Where the lots are in River Falls

Mann Valley Corporate Park
Sterling Ponds Corporate Park
Whitetail Ridge Corporate Park
River Falls Industrial Park
The UW-River Falls campus

Around River Falls: The Kinnickinnic River through downtown, Glen Park and the swinging bridge, Hoffman Park, The Falls Theater, The Falcon Center on the UW-River Falls campus.

17,802 people, 2024 Census estimate.

The Pierce County soil survey puts the largest areas of sandy outwash in the valley of the Kinnickinnic, and Waukesha silt loam, a terrace soil laid down as stream terrace and outwash, occurs principally in the township of River Falls. Sand and silt loam don't hold water the same way, and a lot can have both under it.

What We Do in River Falls

Each of these has a page written about River Falls specifically.

Sealcoating

The sealable pavement here is the campus, the hospital on East Division Street and the corporate parks northwest of town. A campus gets measured area by area, because a student lot, a staff lot and a service drive are in different shape and carry different traffic, and one number over a whole property hides which areas actually need the work. A management spec written in the Twin Cities often carries a no-coal-tar line, because Minnesota banned the sale and use of coal tar sealer statewide in 2014; Wisconsin has no statewide ban and neither River Falls nor either of its counties has passed one. We run an asphalt emulsion, so that spec line reads the same here as it does across the river.

Sealcoating in River Falls

Crack Filling and Sealing

The Pierce County soil survey puts the biggest areas of sandy outwash in the valley of the Kinnickinnic, with silt loam terraces along the river, and sand and silt don't behave the same way when they freeze. A crack left open takes water into whichever of the two is under it. Wide cracks get routed to a clean face and hot rubber goes in at 400 degrees, thin enough at that temperature to reach the bottom and bond to the walls. Cold pour never gets that far down.

Crack Filling and Sealing in River Falls

Asphalt Repair and Patching

The corporate parks northwest of town take the truck traffic, and the Radio Road interchange put them straight onto Highway 35, so freight reaches them without coming through the city. Whitetail Ridge alone has around a dozen businesses and an estimated 400 employees on it. Where a lot has failed in a driving lane it's the base that's gone, and a patch laid over it comes back in the same spot the following spring. That area gets cut back square to sound asphalt, dug out to something firm, rebuilt and compacted, then hot mix rolled in flush with what's around it.

Asphalt Repair and Patching in River Falls

Catch Basin Repair

Mann Valley was built from scratch, with two and a half miles of sanitary sewer, four and a half miles of water main and 3,900 feet of roadway put in before anything went up on it, so what's underground out there is new. Downtown and around the older industrial park it isn't. A structure that has been moving for twenty years takes the asphalt around it down a little more every winter, and what you see is the ring of broken pavement rather than anything wrong with the grate. A rebuild means the structure, a new collar and the asphalt keyed back in at the right pitch.

Catch Basin Repair in River Falls

Parking Lot Striping

A campus that size carries more layout than a single lot does: ADA stalls and access aisles at the federal dimensions, fire lanes, and drive aisles that work for a service truck as well as a car. The hospital lot on East Division Street is the other public one, where the route from an accessible stall to the door is the part that matters. Out in the corporate parks it's dock and trailer layout more than stalls. Paint goes down on chalked lines after the sealer has cured, not on top of a fresh seal.

Parking Lot Striping in River Falls

Track and Athletic Surfaces

UW-River Falls has the track. David Smith Stadium at Ramer Field is a nine-lane 400-meter outdoor track with pole vault, long and triple jump runways and throwing venues around an AstroTurf field, and Ramer Tennis Courts sit just east of it with six outdoor hard courts. Inside, the Knowles Field House has a six-lane 200-meter competition track and five tennis and volleyball courts. River Falls High School on Cemetery Road runs boys' and girls' track and field and tennis, and the district's 2024 referendum covered grounds work and multipurpose athletic space. Track work gets laid out to the measurements rather than by eye, because lanes and exchange zones have to come out where they're supposed to.

Track and Athletic Surfaces in River Falls

Concrete

Dock aprons and pads in the four parks, curb and gutter along the new roadway in Mann Valley, dumpster pads behind the downtown businesses and the campus buildings. Where a trailer's landing gear comes down in the same square yard every day, concrete goes in and asphalt doesn't last. Commercial pours are 4,500 PSI with tied rebar, and the asphalt around the edge gets keyed back in.

Concrete in River Falls

Asphalt Paving

Mann Valley is more than 200 acres of new ground with one 155-acre lot in it, and the buildout put in 3,900 feet of roadway before anything was built on it. Sterling Ponds has four lots over 15 acres, Whitetail Ridge has two over 12.5, and the industrial park has a three-acre lot left. A lot on ground that's just been graded and filled needs the base compacted and drained before any asphalt goes on it, because that's the part nobody can look at once it's paved. On an existing lot the choice is overlay or tear-out, and it comes down to whether the base under it is still sound.

Asphalt Paving in River Falls