If you are an HGTV watcher (and I am!) you know that the Doory Awards are considered the Ultimate House Hunt:

Each week, the Front Door editors select the schmanciest (a real word) homes and YOU get to vote on them.

Why am I telling you this? OMG, because a condo — designed by Tanek — the one that I covet in my dreams (and waking hours) — has been nominated!

Hold your applause until the end: business first — cast your vote today!

I want an architect that can pry open a bear trap with his bare hands. I want an architect that can perform a field tracheotomy using a rusty spoon and an eagle feather. I want an architect that can make a campfire using only the power of his mind.

I’m pretty sure all of these were requirements for Jim Lindborg to become an R.A. (not the dorm kind, the architect kind).

Those and also these: Complete a Masters Degree/do a three year “intern” process/take (and pass) 7 exams.

Congratulations, Jim!

What if I started this blog post with dry data and statistics about the increase in Greenway traffic ? What if I went on and on about the rising percentage of recreational and commuting cyclists over the past 10 years? What if I was just hung up on the idea that 1,000,000 people use the Greenway each year? Wouldn’t that be boring?

Everyone knows that the best place to have a lemonade stand is right, smack on the edge of the sidewalk. A busy sidewalk. With thirsty people. At the end of the day the pitchers are empty and the cigar box is jammed full of money. Some would call that free enterprise, I call it Summer. I wonder if the owners of Pizza Lucé had lemonade stands when they were kids…  Lucé has been working with Tanek to open their 6th (what?!) restaurant – located right, smack on the edge of the Greenway at 210 N. Blake Road Hopkins, MN.

This new location will have a similar feel to the recently finished Downtown Lucé (redesigned, naturally, by Tanek) but with some twists, here’s one of my favorites:

Little fixit stations for your bicycle! Isn’t that cool? Now I can “accidentally” pop my tire and order a Maximus and a Surly Firkin! What will they think of next? How about a bar area with overhead garage doors that open up to a patio? Okay – they thought of that too. Tanek and Lucé are going to milk every last drop out of Summer! They plan to open in July and I plan to be there.

PS: Elisa Richardson demonstrates how to hang a sign – with style:

TANEK IS A HAVING A SALE

Come by and make them an offer on the following:

Photo by Jim Lindborg

One 9′ Frasier Fir. Gently used and in fair/poor condition. Sold “as is.”  Tree stand NFS.

Also for sale:

Ken Piper’s leftovers. Less than a week old, from Azia.