Grape on the Block Small suburban cities. Intimate, family-owned brick-and-mortar businesses, where everybody knows your name. It’s ironic that the much-loved television show, Cheers, which finished its run twenty years ago, offers us a vision of things to come: tight-knit community, sharing life experiences, engaging over alcoholic beverages. Last year, in my personal blog, I wrote about a group called Better Block: The Better Block project started in April, 2010, when a group of community organizers, neighbors, and property owners gathered together to revitalize a single commercial block in an … Read more →