Friday Photo: Residential Storefronts

A few weeks ago a post about a business located inside of a single-family house on Grand Ave in St. Paul wanting to expand out to the sidewalk reminded me how much I like single-family houses with storefronts on them. As far as I can tell, this type of building represents the best of all worlds in urbanism: it’s an incremental intensification of land use that also preserves existing structures (resources), and is generally undertaken only by locally owned businesses, keeping money in the local economy.

 

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Bryant Ave. and 36th St.

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Franklin and Lyndale

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West side of 11th just North of Franklin

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Nicollet and 34th St.

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East side of Bloomington just North of Lake St.

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Grand Ave. and 33rd St.

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East side of Chicago Ave. North of 38th