Enjoy Happy Hour on March 23 with Streets.mn!
Meet members of the Streets.mn board and get to know other contributors at a Happy Hour in St. Paul on March 23. Bring story ideas! Bring a friend!
Tag Archives: local business
Deep North Podcast – Cans to Mini-Golf: The Creative Enterprise Zone and One Building’s Transformation
Artists in disguise inhabiting an abandoned factory in the creative enterprise zone An old factory on the Minneapolis St. Paul border has forgone its 20th century widgets for much different wares. Today coffee roasts, beer brews, drills grind, and golf clubs putt. The building’s new tenants embody the potential of creative enterprise and inspire the […]
Saturday Morning Adventure on Central Avenue
Saturday mornings in the Hop household. Contrast a typical weekday morning with an easy going day, full of relaxation and adventure. Its Saturday today. Time for an adventure! Sometimes we make errands an adventure too. Ordinary daily tasks can certainly be turned into a fun time for the little ones. Imagination and mindset are the […]
Chart of the Day: Shopkeepers Travel Mode Share Estimates (Bristol UK)
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 […]
Chart of the Day: Bike Lanes and Local Business
You might have noticed the story floating around the internet this week about the new bike lanes in Salt Lake City, on a main commercial street in the downtown area. To build them, the city had to remove on-street (angle) parking. As it turns out, getting rid of parking didn’t kill business on the street. […]