Heads up: I just heard yesterday that Dorn Hardware, in Northgate Shopping Center, N. Sherman and Aberg Avenues is closing and currently running a liquidation sale. This is a great loss, as Dorn's has the inventory variety to compete with Mennards and Home Depot and is so very close and bikable for near east neighborhoods.
I'm guessing this is one of the businesses the Northside Business Association was referring to when they said bike lanes will cause stores to close. If this is the reason, Dorn is closing on the BELIEF that bike lanes will cause their store to fail--a textbook example of thoughts creating our realities. I'm guessing they have stats to back up their decision, but I was aghast at how incognizant the Northside Business Association was in terms of what doors (lanes?!) bicycle access will open for them and how the entire picture, attitudes, and actions of their neighborhood will begin changing once neighbors see how easy and less stressful it is to walk to local salons, vets, etc. instead of continuing to drive out of the neighborhood for these services. Perhaps it is not too late to intervene and help Dorn with marketing to the bicycle community? Donna Magdalina On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Michael Rewey <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > I don't recall if this made this list. > > Last week the Maple Bluff Village Board unanimously approved the North > Sherman 3-lane conversion. > > Those of you who are so inclined might want to thank the village by > e-mailing a "thanks" to the village administrator with a request to pass > onto the board members. > > Tim Krueger, administrator > *[email protected]* > * > * > > Mike Rewey > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > >
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