Richfield Commercial Snow Removal

Commercial Snow Removal for Richfield Businesses

When you're looking for snow removal in Richfield, MN, for a business, the question isn't whether the lot gets plowed. It's whether it gets plowed before the first customer pulls in. A storefront with a buried lot, a glazed sidewalk, or a snowbank across the entrance loses that customer to the business down the street that got cleared first.

KG Landscape has handled commercial snow and ice removal since 2003, for retail properties, restaurants, apartment buildings, and other businesses. Richfield is a first-ring suburb close to Minneapolis, MSP International Airport, and the Mall of America, and the businesses here count on customers who expect to park and walk in like it's July. Our snow removal services are built for exactly that: plowing, shoveling, salting, and hauling, all under one plan for your property.

What a Minnesota Winter Means for Your Richfield Lot

Richfield currently declares a snow emergency once four inches of snow falls, and until a street is plowed curb to curb, no one can park on it, according to the City of Richfield's winter parking rules. When street parking disappears, more of your customers' and employees' cars depend on your lot, right when it's hardest to keep open. The City plows busy arterial roads first, then collector streets, residential streets, alleys, and finally city-owned parking lots.

Richfield fits 142 miles of streets and 40 miles of sidewalk into about seven square miles. Four state highways run through it (I-35W, I-494, Highway 62, and Highway 77), and MnDOT maintains those. Penn, Portland, and Nicollet avenues and 66th Street are Hennepin County roads, and they're also where many of the city's newest businesses have opened. It's home to Best Buy's corporate headquarters, the city's largest employer. Every one of those businesses has a lot the city doesn't plow. Your private lot isn't on anyone's list but yours, and that's the part we take on.

One of our trucks plowing a lot beside a cleared walk.

What Retail and Restaurant Lots Need From a Snow Contractor

Cleared before the first customer arrives

Retail and restaurant lots run on a different clock than an office park. Shops need the lot open when the doors open. A restaurant may close late and have staff back early, which leaves a short overnight window to get the plowing done. After learning how your property runs, our managers build a custom service plan long before the first snowfall, so your stop lands at the right point in the route. The open-up happens while the lot is empty, and the cleanup is done before the day starts.

A storefront sidewalk cleared and salted to the concrete.

Sidewalks, entrances, and curb lines

The lot gets the attention, but the sidewalk is where people slip. Richfield has about 40 miles of sidewalk, and the walks in front of businesses see foot traffic all winter. Our crews clear sidewalks, aprons, stairs, and dumpster areas with shovels, snow blowers, or skid loaders, depending on the property. They carry salt with them, so a walk is treated as soon as it is clear. The goal is simple: a customer steps out of the car and walks to your door on bare concrete, from the curb line to the entrance mat.

A skid loader clearing snow along the edge of a lot.

Edges first, so the snow stays gone

Here is a detail most customers never notice, which is the point. Before the plow makes its passes, our crew runs a snow blower around the edges of the lot, where the pavement meets the sidewalks and curbs. That way, when the plow comes through, it is not shoving snow right back up onto the walk the crew just cleared. It is a small step, and it is the difference between a lot that looks done and one that is done. You do not open up to a clean lot and a sidewalk buried under a plow ridge.

A retail lot after plowing, with salt down on the pavement.

Salt that gets the lot down to pavement

A plowed lot can still be a skating rink. We apply pure salt to bring lots down to bare pavement, and we measure each property from satellite images so our drivers put down the right amount instead of guessing. Salt stops working below about 15 degrees, so on the coldest nights we spread sand mixed with salt to give tires and boots something to grip. More on how we handle ice is on our salting, sanding and de-icing page.

Snow stacked well away from the parking spaces.

Keeping your parking spaces all winter

Late in the season, plow piles start eating parking spaces. We move and stack snow with large buckets to win that room back, and when there is nowhere left to put it, we haul it off site. Our snow hauling and stacking service is how a full lot stays full in March. For a retail lot, every space you get back is a customer who did not drive past.

How a Richfield Commercial Snow Plan Works

Every commercial account starts with a conversation about your property: the lot, the walks, the entrances, the dumpster area, where snow can be piled, and how your lot gets used on a snow emergency day when street parking is gone. From there, we build a custom plan and a service agreement around how the property is actually used. You choose when snow plowing begins, at one inch or two, depending on your needs and budget. You also get a dedicated account manager and a 24-hour emergency line for the storm that does not follow the forecast.

For a business budgeting a Minnesota winter, predictability matters as much as the plowing. The full details of our commercial snow removal service, including our parking lot plowing and snow removal packages, are a click away.

Commercial Snow Removal Across the Metro

We have written about the problems different kinds of businesses run into each winter. If you run a restaurant, our article on why restaurants have a narrow window for snow removal walks through the overnight timing problem. If you manage a shopping center, we have covered who is responsible for snow removal at a strip mall. And for any business with a busy lot, our guide to parking lot snow removal explains what a good plow plan includes.