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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More