Some of the greatest potential noise impacts will be near the 21st Street station in the Kenilworth area, which the project considers a “park-like” setting.

The construction manager will provide cost estimating and construction services for the new building at the southwest corner of Larpenteur Avenue West and Cleveland Avenue North on the St. Paul campus.

The current budget assumes $225 million in bonding this year and the state doesn’t have the resources for additional debt service unless the next budget forecast — scheduled to come out mid-March — calls for another surplus.

Odd-year bonding bills tend to be in the $200 million range, although recent odd-year bills were as large as $500 million in 2011, and as low as $156 million in 2013.

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The potential change would allow the museum to put more of the budget toward “enhanced exhibits and other ‘visitor experience’ interpretive components,” without increasing the project budget.

A coalition of women’s groups spent years on the Women’s Economic Security Act, which Gov. Mark Dayton signed it into law on Mother’s Day.

Lawmakers in the lower chamber passed the infrastructure package – plus $200 million more in supplemental cash appropriations for construction projects – early Friday morning with relatively little debate and strong bipartisan support.

Rep. Lyndon Carlson, who chairs the House Ways & Means Committee, said a few provisions in the agriculture and jobs portions of the budget were the most significant hang-ups left.

A water pipeline project for Republican-controlled southwestern Minnesota border cities will likely be the key to passing a bonding bill this session.