MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Residents and businesses are relieved to have the major thoroughfare open again.

Dressed for success

Local perspective:

Halloween is still a few days away, but Jacques Champine and his family are already in costume as the Hennepin Construction Crew to celebrate the reopening of Hennepin Avenue.

"It's exciting for us for the sheer fact that we've had no access to our road and we live on the street where some of the businesses have been closing down as a result of it and now it's exciting to see the life kind of come back to it," said Champine.

‘Great time to come back’

The backstory:

Crews have been working on Hennepin Avenue in Uptown from Lake Street to Douglas Avenue since April of last year to add protected bike lanes, wider sidewalks and new bus shelter

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