425 S Federal

September 26, 2009 |  

The intersection in this photograph is 4th Street Southwest and South Federal Avenue.  This intersection probably has the most traffic during the day, and is highly visible.  The decaying building foundation you see in the photo is 425 S Federal, former location of Mechanical Air Systems, which was a large brick building.  Everything else is a gravel covered lot that has been a gravel covered lot as long as I can remember.

You can view this property’s information at the Cerro Gordo country website.  I’ll be posting links to the county’s website for properties from here on and may even update old posts.

Behind the lots is a portion of south Delaware Avenue that connects with the rest of the one-way loop around central downtown.  After the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge disaster in 2007, mass hysteria ensued that led everyone to believe that every bridge that was more than two years old would collapse in a similar manner within the next two weeks.  This bridge was found to have some structural deficiency, and since then has been closed to vehicular traffic.  Two businesses operate on the portion of south Delaware Avenue that is now a dead end street.  This helpful vinyl sign seems to be the city’s way of saying ‘Sorry’.

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