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!

Oh well, Tanek whipped up another masterpiece — this time, Chaleece Roberts and The Team changed the way we see tile and stone.

Last year, Minnesota Tile & Stone worked with Tanek to create a studio in Plymouth. That worked so well, they super-sized it and built another one in Minnetonka — BUT, the beautiful thing about this 40,000 square foot facility: is…

it’s…

beautiful!

Actually, it’s more than beautiful, it’s a place where the homeowner and the architect can pull up their plans and make all their decisions. It’s a real studio. And a showroom. And so much more.

I think I’d like to live there.

Situated between Eat Street and MCAD is grey building.

In its 111 years of life, it has seen all sorts of tenants — too sordid to get into on this G-rated blog (an auto dealership? Some business that required a liquor permit?? …But I’ve said too much) —  No more! The Tanek Landlords have fostered a renaissance:

Spydertrap, Tanek, Light Grey Art Lab… Light Grey Art Lab had a Grand Opening the other night and this voyeuristic footage was sent to me by the Whittier paparazzi:

In a category called, The Community Builders, Mpls St Paul Mag digs into (and digests) the Blue Plate Restaurant Company. It seems like a Tanek trend — working with companies that insert themselves into, and embrace, their communities.

With some help from Tanek, Blue Plate reinvents themselves for each neighborhood — Three Squares feels like Maple Grove, The Lowry feels like Uptown — seven restaurants in all and all somehow taste like the neighborhood they’re in.

Amazing/delicious.

Read what Mpls St Paul Mag has to say:

It’s happening, folks! Remember when I said Richfield looked a little bit like a hangover? That was just a couple of weeks ago and already, the city has responded to my words.

Mary Jane Smetanka reports for the StarTribune here:

But the tastiest morsel — for you Luce Lovers —  is this excerpt:

A less major development — but an important one for the area — was Pizza Luce’s purchase of the vacant Bridgeman’s building on 66th Street, just south of Richfield Lake. The restaurant will renovate the building to seat 140 people and will build a new outdoor patio. It is expected to open this summer.