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METRO Blue Line Extension engineering
METRO Blue Line Extension engineering, Contract 22P103A with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. - the design and engineering of the 13.4-mile extension, raised to a total not-to-exceed amount
Awarded to Kimley-Horn — Metropolitan Council now holds 2 positions with this supplier.
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- Buyer
- Metropolitan Council
- Where
- Minnesota · Brooklyn Park
- Segments
- Consultancy, Civil works
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Digital operations
- Status
- In execution — The project is in the Engineering phase of the FTA's Capital Investment Grants programme, which it entered in January 2017.
- Value band
- $100–500m
- Currency
- USD
- Key dates (month)
- Transportation committee October 2025 · Council approved November 2025 · Eng entry fta January 2017 · Amended record of decision August 2025
Status in full
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The project is in the Engineering phase of the FTA's Capital Investment Grants programme, which it entered in January 2017. The Council states that project staff will complete 90 per cent design by summer 2026 and 100 per cent by autumn 2026, that the interactive alignment map was updated in June 2026 to reflect 90 per cent design plans, and that construction is anticipated to begin in 2027.
Next step
Recorded award: Kimley-Horn — METRO Blue Line Extension engineering — Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
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- Key dates (4)
- Published bidders
Full detail withheld: 5 fields. In the United States edition · See a fully open example
4 sources · all primary
- ● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2025-187 — METRO Blue Line Extension – Kimley-Horn Amendment, Contract 22P103A; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2025-11-12. Increases the contract value by $42,900,000 for a total not-to-exceed $139,275,448; the committee record states that the funds are flowing from Hennepin County to the Council. (published 2025-11-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · METRO Blue Line Extension — project home page: 'With the recent completion of the Federal Risk Assessment process and the project nearing the 90% design milestone, project staff in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration have set an official project budget of $3.58 billion'; 90 per cent design by summer 2026 and 100 per cent by autumn 2026; construction anticipated to begin in 2027 The /Current-Projects/ address redirects here (HTTP 302); this is the resolved page read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 61,879 bytes). (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Dashboard, CIG-Public-Dashboard-09-11-2026.pdf (2 pages, 113,180 bytes), 'Last updated: 09/10/2026': METRO Blue Line Extension (Bottineau LRT), sponsor Met Council, Minneapolis MN, phase Eng, length 13.4, 13 stations, project cost $3,580.0 million, CIG funding request $752.7 million, CIG share 21 per cent, NEPA completion 8/11/2025, PD entry 08/22/2014, ENG entry 01/19/2017, non-CIG matching funds In Progress, estimated grant date Early 2027; the footnote records that the 8/11/2025 date is the Amended Record of Decision and that the original ROD date was 09/19/2016 Read with the full browser header set; a plain curl is answered HTTP 403. (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2025-137 — METRO Blue Line Extension – Adequacy Determination; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2025-09-10. Council determination that the Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement is adequate; records that the FTA signed the Amended Record of Decision on 11 August 2025 and that the SFEIS was published in May 2025. (published 2025-09-10 · checked 2026-09-14)
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