Shopping for Used Bike Parts in the Twin Cities
Buying used bike parts is an affordable way to build or repair a bike. At least, if you know where to look.
Category: Shopping
Find the E-Bike That’s Right for You!
With three different classes, a range of prices and multiple options at every bike store, electric bikes require careful shopping.
Bloomington’s New Vision for Southtown Shopping Center
Located along several key regional corridors (I-35W, I-494, Orange Line), what is currently a vast sea of parking and big-box retail has much more potential.
It’s Time to Practice ‘Place’
What is the cost of mobility — to our environment and sense of place? What if, instead, we developed our neighborhoods to be walkable and interactive?
Retail Districts Need a Local Base
The national problem of sagging shopping districts can be fixed with local stores in Uptown and Downtown Minneapolis and on Grand in St. Paul.
How Engaging With Stories Can Help Us Reclaim Local Power
We used storytelling as an engagement tool to make sense of the decline of St. Paul’s fancy-schmanciest shopping street. Could it inform work in other places, too?
Grocery Delivery 2023: How Grocer Inflation Compares
Tired of watching your grocery bill rise? Where you shop for groceries and what’s in your cart are the greatest influencers of cost.
Bikes and Business on Bloor: An Economic Study from Toronto
Recent discussion about Hennepin Avenue has raised the impact of the planned reconstruction on business. Fortunately we have a detailed case study on bike lanes and business from Toronto to learn from.
National Links: Gas Stations and Charging Futures
Banks and climate change, Parisian public spaces and more global sustainability news
Safe Streets are Good for Business
It’s a day ending in -y, so business owners are concerned about parking again. This time we’re on Hennepin Avenue, between Douglas and Lake. Is it Uptown? Only a certain former city council member could tell you. Business owners on Hennepin got loud enough about the prospect of less street parking in the upcoming reconstruction […]