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Article: Maple Grove heads downtown; At first glance, Arbor Lakes looks like other suburban shopping centers. But its three-block-long Main Street offers a small-town feel and a pedestrian heart.(METRO)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 17, 2000
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Byline: Linda Mack; Staff Writer
CORRECTION PUBLISHED 06/20/00: The firms involved in the design of the Arbor Lakes development in Maple Grove was incompletely reported in this article. Dahlgren, Shardlow & Uban, did the master planning, urban design and landscape architecture.
Downtown Maple Grove, a short stretch of stores on a newly minted Main Street, looks like 50th and France on the frontier. And that's essentially what it is.
The three blocks of compact, sidewalk-oriented buildings create a pedestrian heart for the 55-acre Arbor Lakes development, whose grand opening is today. But the land of vast parking lots and giant retail stores ...