Mounds View Snow Removal for Storefronts on the Boulevard
Front walks, curb cuts and customer stalls, open before your sign lights up.
Mounds View Snow Removal Starts Where the County Plow Stops
Mounds View snow removal for a business on the Boulevard comes with an odd wrinkle: the road out front isn't the city's. Ramsey County plows it, and when a county truck rolls by after your lot is finished, its blade can leave a hard ridge right where your customers turn in. The stalls, the storefront walk and that entrance stay your responsibility no matter who plowed the road.
KG Landscape has handled winter work on commercial properties since 2003. Founder Kent Gliadon has twenty-plus years behind him on shopping strips, storefront rows and buildings with several tenants, where each business keeps its own hours and every front door counts. Ahead of winter, we write a plan for your site from our commercial program options.
Who Plows What Along Mounds View Boulevard
The city's streets and drainage page lists several of the busiest roads in town as Ramsey County's to maintain, snow removal included: Mounds View Boulevard, County Road H, Long Lake Road, Silver Lake Road, Old Highway 8 and County Road I east of Silver Lake Road. On its own streets, the city works through nearby blocks one after another, and it has named priority routes that may be plowed first or more often, since those keep fire, police and ambulance access open.
Parking has a rule of its own. Under City Code section 71.006, nobody may park on a block of a public street for 48 hours once snow on that block reaches two inches at street level, unless the block has already been cleared curb to curb. Customers who usually take a side street spot can end up parking with you instead, so your stalls need to open early.
The Boulevard, once Highway 10, is the main commercial corridor. The city's redevelopment page puts traffic there at about 26,000 vehicles a day, citing a 2020 MnDOT count, and the city lists more than 140 businesses in Mounds View. For a shop or service business along that stretch, here is what a storm visit includes.
A cleared lot beside a brick commercial building.
What a Boulevard Storefront Gets After Every Storm
Front row parking first, far corners last
The stalls nearest your door fill up first, so they're plowed and salted first. Drive lanes follow, then the outer rows, then the edges where piles will sit for the rest of the winter. If snow is still coming down at opening time, that order means the spaces customers want are usable while the crew finishes the outer edge of the lot.
Plowing beside a brick building wall.
The building line, plowed tight and blown clean
A plow can't reach the last foot of pavement against a wall or a planter. Our walk crews run blowers and shovels along the building edge before the truck makes its passes, so snow pushed off the lot doesn't land back on finished concrete. A clean edge also keeps meltwater from pooling at the foundation and freezing where customers open their car doors.
Covered drive-up bays on a brick building after plowing.
Covered lanes and pull-through bays
Service businesses on the Boulevard often have bays, canopies or pull-through lanes. A full-size truck won't always fit under a roof, so those spots get skid loaders or walk-behind equipment. Snow drifts in under a canopy and slush drops off every car that waits there, and both freeze into ruts, so these lanes get salt even when the open lot looks finished.
A cleared parking area by a brick building's entrance.
The county's ridge at your curb cut
When the county plow comes through after your lot is done, it can leave a band of heavy, packed snow across the entrance. That ridge is often harder to drive over than the storm itself. Your plan treats every curb cut as part of the lot, so opening it is in the scope instead of a job for an employee with a shovel.
A plowed street and lot beside a commercial building.
Street-side walks and the hydrant on your corner
The public walk along the road is how people reach you on foot or from a bus stop, and it's the stretch most likely to catch spray from passing plows. We take it down to the concrete as part of our walk clearing, treat it, and the walkthrough marks any hydrant on your frontage so piles go somewhere else. Here's more on matching salt, sand and brine to the weather.
A Mounds View Snow Plan Built Around Your Business Hours
Before winter, your account manager walks the property with you and writes down your hours, each entrance and curb cut, the walks, and where piles can go. Service kicks in at one inch or at two, your choice. Once the snow stops, everything on the plan is wrapped up no more than 12 hours later, with a crew on call around the clock. Each visit gets a timestamp, giving you a paper trail if anyone asks. A fixed monthly price, the same in a quiet month as a stormy one, is among our snow removal packages, and when piles start crowding the lot we can stack them or haul them away. The full scope is on our commercial plowing and salting page.
Boulevard Business Snow Services, Mixed to Fit
Pick the pieces your storefront needs; the plan lists each one.
Reading for Shop and Service Business Owners
Three articles on our blog fill in the details. The scope, records and pricing a small business should ask for is a good place to start. Who handles snow at a multi-tenant strip mall sorts out landlord and tenant duties. And seasonal contracts versus paying per storm compares two ways to budget for winter.
Mounds View Snow Removal for Professional Offices and Industry
Not every Mounds View business has a storefront. A professional office usually sits empty overnight, which gives the crew a clear lot and one deadline: finished before staff pull in. An industrial building cares less about a front walk than about its overhead doors and the drive trucks use, and those come first in its plan. Office managers can see how Fridley office parks are cleared for a larger version of that work. The county roads and the 48-hour parking rule apply to all of these properties too.
Snow Questions From Mounds View Business Owners
Is Mounds View Boulevard a city street?
No. The city lists Mounds View Boulevard among the roads Ramsey County maintains, along with County Road H, Long Lake Road and Silver Lake Road, among others. The county plows those roads and city crews handle the rest. For a business, the practical point is that your entrance can be ridged over by a plow running on a different schedule from the city's. We plan for that. The curb cut counts as part of your lot in our scope, and opening it is part of every visit, so customers aren't left climbing over a frozen bank to get in.
When can cars park on my street again after a snowfall?
City Code section 71.006 bars parking on a block of a public street for 48 hours once snow there reaches two inches. Parking can resume sooner if plows have already opened that block to both curbs. The rule pushes customers and employees who normally use the street into your lot, sometimes for two full days. Because of that, we open the stalls nearest your entrance early, keep as much of the lot in use as we can, and stack snow where it won't swallow parking spaces.
If my landlord plows the lot, who shovels outside my unit?
Usually the lease decides. In many buildings with several tenants, the landlord hires someone for parking and shared spaces, and each tenant answers for the concrete in front of its own unit. When nobody reads that clause closely, the walk outside a single shop gets skipped. A landlord can close the gap by putting parking and all the unit frontages under a single contract. A tenant whose lease allows it can hire us for just its own frontage and door. Either way, read your lease before the first storm.
Can you plow while my shop is open?
Yes, though it changes how the work is done. With cars in the lot, the crew clears drive lanes and open rows, works around parked vehicles and keeps one route in and out open the whole time. Walks are kept clear and treated as people come and go. Once the lot empties after closing, the crew returns for a full cleanup of the spaces that had cars in them. A storm that ends overnight is simpler for everyone: the lot is finished before you unlock the door, and the only sign it snowed is the piles at the edges.
Will I get proof that my property was serviced?
Yes. Each visit is recorded with the date and time, the areas cleared and the materials applied. That record matters if a customer falls and a claim arrives months later, because it shows the property was being maintained when it happened. It also lets you check the service against the plan you signed and compare one winter with the next. If you own several storefronts, records can be kept site by site. Ask to see a sample at the walkthrough, so the format is no surprise after the first storm.
Book a Mounds View Walkthrough While the Ground Is Bare
If your business sits on Mounds View Boulevard or County Road H, let's look at the lot, the entrances and the walks together before the first snowfall. Set up a visit by phone, (763) 568-7251, or drop us a line, and see what else we offer in snow and ice care.
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