The usual hum of traffic on W. 7th Street will be quiet for most of the summer, replaced by the noise of road construction. Unlike the lane and bridge closures snaking around the rest of downtown St.

The stretch of West Seventh from Kellogg Boulevard to Grand Avenue will be open for local business access only.

An "unexpected" sinkhole has closed a section of St. Paul's busy West 7th Street on Friday evening – with the city warning that repairs could take up to two months. The City of St. Paul says it has been forced to close the road between Kellogg Boulevard to Grand Avenue to vehicles after the sinkhole appeared on Thursday evening.