Tag: business

January 6, 2011

What’s your favorite Seattle bike-powered business?

Eric at Tubulocity ran into Steve Richmond of Garden Cycles the other day while riding under the West Seattle bridge. Turns out, Garden Cycles is a gardening service concentrating on planting native species and removing invasive ones. Oh, also, they do a whole lot of the work using bikes (the video above was posted by…
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tagged: bike-powered business, business, garden cycles, tubulocity, undriving
August 18, 2010

Lessons from Bikestravaganza, Part 2: Bike Business

Bikestravaganza rolled into Seattle Saturday and sparked some interesting conversations. Here is part two of our series about ideas taken from the night. When Portland announced it was looking for a couple businesses to turn the parking spots in front of their storefronts into bike corrals, people scoffed. Now, after the projects have proven to…
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tagged: bikestravaganza, business, lessons from bikestravaganza
July 8, 2010

No Cars Allowed

A new restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin is hoping to open up shop along a bike and pedestrian path in “the one place where you can’t hear any cars in the middle of the city,” according to the Wisconsin State Journal. In fact, it will be impossible to get there by car.
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tagged: beer, bike trails, burke-gilman, business, counterbalance, development, food, gilligan’s brewing, wisconsin
July 8, 2010

Lame businesses in Ballard try to further block Missing Link

Salmon Bay Sand and Gravel Co. and their “business” friends are at it again, trying to make sure the Burke-Gilman trail is never completed and that people continue having their pleasant rides turned suddenly into a potentially deadly and violent ride along Shilshole and Market.
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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, business, missing link, salmon bay sand and gravel, shilshole