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 Spooner. About an hour and a half north of Eau Claire on Highway 53, and the estimate is free.
Spooner is the top of the road for us, about an hour and a half north of Eau Claire on Highway 53, a city of about 2,500 that calls itself the Crossroads of the North because 53, 63, 70 and 253 all meet here. It's the largest city in Washburn County, though the county seat is Shell Lake.
The commercial lots here are the hospital, the schools, the downtown and the industrial sites off the highways. Spooner Health is on Chandler Drive. The school district has its elementary, middle and high schools all in the city, and the high school on Highway 70 is a 163,000 square foot building whose track hosts the Heart O' North conference championships. Downtown runs along Walnut Street and River Street, and the state's largest cool-water fish hatchery, on West Maple Street, brings visitors year-round.
The city's development districts hold a machine shop, a warehouse built for Frito-Lay, a 24,000 square foot office and manufacturing building and an auto dealer, and the city has bought another 27 acres between Highway 53 and Highway 63 for what comes next.
Around Spooner: Governor Thompson State Fish Hatchery on West Maple Street, Spooner Health on Chandler Drive, The rodeo grounds on West Beaverbrook Avenue, The Railroad Memories Museum in the old depot, Walnut Street.
2,494 people, 2024 Census estimate.
Spooner's average high stays below freezing from November through February and it gets about 51 inches of snow a year. Overnight lows only average above 50 in June, July and August, which is the sealing window.
Each of these has a page written about Spooner specifically.
Spooner Health, the three schools, the downtown lots along Walnut and River Street, the businesses in the development districts off 53 and 63. The window for sealing up here is June through August, when the overnight lows finally average above 50, so the estimate is a spring job and the sealing is a summer one. There's no coal tar ban in Washburn County, and we run an asphalt emulsion regardless.
Fifty-one inches of snow a year and average highs below freezing four months running: the freeze cycle up here works every open crack wider until it's filled. Hot rubber at 400 degrees bonds to the crack walls and stays flexible; cold pour lifts out in strips by spring. Spring and early fall, when the cracks are at a middling width, are the months to do it.
Potholes on a lot up here come out of the same winter: water in an open crack, freezing, lifting, then more water. On a hospital lot or a school lot the repair is cut back to sound asphalt, the base dug out to something firm and rebuilt, then hot mix rolled in flush. Cold patch in February is the right call. In July it's the wrong one.
A storm drain in a lot takes twenty winters of water in the joint between the frame and the structure, and up here the winters are longer. The sign is never the grate; it's the asphalt breaking up in a ring around it, by which time the structure has been moving for years. Rebuilt means the structure, a new collar and the asphalt keyed back in at the right pitch.
The hospital on Chandler Drive and the schools are the public lots, and public lots mean ADA stalls and access aisles at the federal dimensions and fire lanes marked. A restripe goes on after the sealer has cured, and a layout gets measured and chalked before any paint goes down.
Spooner High School on Highway 70 has the track that hosts the Spooner Invitational, the Heart O' North Conference championships and the middle-school invitationals. Track work is a summer-window job, and lanes and exchange zones get measured rather than eyeballed.
Dock aprons at the warehouses in the development districts, dumpster pads behind the downtown businesses, curb and gutter around the hospital. Poured at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar on the commercial side, with the asphalt around it tied back in so the joint is somebody's responsibility.
Spooner's code puts the cost of sidewalk construction, repair and reconstruction on the property owner (62-47), while curb and gutter is laid, repaired or replaced by the city itself, either on a petition from the abutting owners or by council resolution. When the council orders a walk replaced, the owner has 20 days from service of the notice under Wis. Stat. 66.0907(3)(c) before the city does it and the cost goes on the tax roll. The city's spec calls for six sacks of cement to the cubic yard testing 4,000 pounds at 28 days, and seven inches of thickness where a commercial walk crosses a driveway approach. Reconstructing or enlarging a drive inside the street right of way needs a permit with a drawing and the materials named, and a commercial property is allowed two access driveways at up to 35 feet. River Street downtown is Highway 63 and Maple Street is Highway 70, so an approach onto either goes through the state under Wis. Stat. 86.07(2)(a) and Trans 231 on top of the city's permit.
The city bought 27 acres between Highway 53 and Highway 63 for what comes next, and the industrial sites it lists come with hot-mix paving and concrete curb and gutter on the spec sheet. A new lot up here goes down on a graded, compacted, drained base, because the base is what decides whether it lasts through the winters this far north.
What property owners and managers here ask, answered.
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