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First “Walk Score,” Now “Bike Score”

More Bicycling Accolades for Minneapolis “Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” –Anonymous music critic “Who are you going to believe — me, or your own lying eyes?” –New Yorker cartoon Walk Score, the company whose 1-100 rating system purports to tell home buyers (and renters!) how walkable a given neighborhood is, is beta testing...
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Minneapolis 170, Edina 167

Minneapolis Beats Edina No, that’s not a wild basketball score — it’s 2010 per square foot selling prices. For the first time in my knowledge, home prices in Minneapolis — specifically, Southwest Minneapolis — bested prices in Edina (I’m leaving out the very swanky homes ringing Lake of the Isles and Calhoun). What’s that about? I’d...
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How Walkable is Your Neighborhood?

Home Amenities: Floor Plan, Updates . . . ‘Walkability’ How “walkable” is any given neighborhood? You can find out by going to http://www.walkscore.com/ and typing in an address. The site, which covers 40 U.S. metro areas, generates a map of nearby services (restaurants, groceries, book stores, coffee shops, dry cleaning, etc.), and calculates both a...
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