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Chart of the Day: Shopkeepers Travel Mode Share Estimates (Bristol UK)

By on June 16, 2016 in Chart, Economics, Shopping

Alex Schieferdecker turned me onto an old Citylab article about parking perception versus parking reality called Four Reasons Retailers Don’t Need Free Parking. It cites a (hard to find) study out of the UK which charted perceived mode-share versus actual mode share for a shopping street in Bristol, UK (a medium-sized city in the Southwest, population 450K). Here’s the chart […]

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In Defense of “Unlustrous” Bloomington

By on April 7, 2016 in Development, Housing, Infrastructure, Neighborhoods, Shopping, Sidewalks, Suburbia

Recently the StarTribune ran an article about how “Bloomington Has Lost its Luster“. The article makes the following points:  The housing stock is aging, the schools aren’t that great, and young people prefer the city. As a longtime resident of Bloomington, I feel it’s my duty to respond.  Some of my points I’ve made before in other articles, but […]

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Chart of the Day: Time Spent Shopping per Day

By on February 23, 2016 in Chart, Shopping

The Star Tribune republished an eye-catching NY Times story this weekend about waste from online shopping. Here’s the punchline of their piece: But measuring the effect of the cardboard economy is more difficult. There are possible trade-offs, for example. As people shop more online, they might use their car less. And delivery services have immense […]

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The Produce of St. Paul’s Past

By on February 17, 2016 in Downtown, History, Photos, Shopping, Urbanism

I had a few minutes to spare in the general vicinity of downtown St. Paul, so I went on by to check out the Penfield. Because at the frequency at which I visit downtown St. Paul, it’s still something “new” over across the river. At the risk of going a little fanboy, it was great, […]

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The Re-Rise of the Local Grocery in Shoreview

By on January 27, 2016 in Shopping, Suburbia

Our local grocery wasn’t really very local. It was a 68,000 sq ft Rainbow big-box that closed last fall. This made our nearest general grocery a big-box Cub Foods (90,000 sq ft?) that is three miles farther away (there is also a Fresh & Natural about a mile away that we use often but it does […]

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The Downtown Home-free Zone

By on January 21, 2016 in Downtown, Housing, Maps, Shopping

As any local resident knows, “what’s wrong with downtown retail” is perennial topic of conversation that seems like it started with the opening of the first of our beautiful suburban malls. Even worse, everyone has an opinion. Unluckily for you, I have the keys to this blog, which means I get to share mine (and […]

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Last Minute Christmas Gifts For Your Favorite Urbanist

By on December 23, 2015 in Shopping

Need a final item for the urbanist you love? Here are some quickies. A City Bike My wife and I have a lot of bikes from speedy road and track bikes to mountain and hybrid. Our Workcycles Opafiets (mine above) and Gr8 (Jan’s) are overwhelming our most ridden. The bakfiets in the background above would […]

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We Read the Parking Meter Comments, So You Don’t Have To

By on October 21, 2015 in Cars, News, Parking, Shopping

When controversy happens… when tempers flare…we read the comments, so you don’t have to. This week, there was a contentious meeting in St. Paul concerning proposals to implement parking meters on Grand Avenue. The meeting was “heated,” to use the words of the Pioneer Press. It featured a crowd willing to heckle those speaking. Will […]

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Shop Closer to Home

By on September 30, 2015 in Bicycling, Carfree, Shopping

I’m trying to get a new theme working, doing only posts with a thesis short enough include in a four word title. The good news is, you can stop reading now, because you already know what I’m going to say. For those of you not heeding my advice and plunging headlong into the next paragraph nontheless, I’ve been thinking […]

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Rosedale Expansion is a Great Opportunity for Roseville

By on September 17, 2015 in Bicycling, Development, Shopping

The City of Roseville has a great opportunity available. If they take advantage of it. Jones Lange LaSalle, the owners of Rosedale Mall want to add a 140,000 sq ft addition to the NW side of the mall along with developing two or more out lots or pads. To make up for the loss of […]

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