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Home Services

CertaPro Painters of SW Metro Revitalizes 1920s Craftsman Home

CertaPro Painters of SW Metro recently restored a beautiful 1920s Craftsman home in the Twin Cities to its original splendor. The project required careful preparation to preserve the home’s original architectural details, as well as strict adherence to EPA lead-safe renovation requirements. The local painting team also inherited a quote that omitted several critical items. Rather than cut corners, they addressed the gaps and completed the work to the homeowner’s...

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Finance + Legal Services

First Western Bank's 8th Annual Volunteer Days

October 5th, 2026 marks the start of First Western Bank’s 8th Annual Volunteer Days – a workweek-long spree of service to local charities, non-profits, and other community organizations.“We’re a community bank in full,” said David Thompson, market president of First Western Bank’s Eden Prairie branch. “With 19 locations in the Midwest and another in Arizona, we are hardly the smallest bank in the country – though I readily admit we’re pretty far from being the largest, too. That’s why we’re all...

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Health + Wellness

Woodhouse Spa: Join The Club and Save Big on Self-Care

However you define the ultimate soothing and restorative spa experience, Woodhouse Spa provides on the north shore of Purgatory Creek. Proprietor Megan Stebbing and her fully licensed team offer more forms of massage, facials, and full-body treatments than you could possibly fit into a day, let alone in one session. But that’s OK. The Eden Prairie day spa makes it convenient – and affordable – to try everything, and receive the regular self-care you deserve.Introducing The ClubNo hard sell...

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Local Services

CottageCare Housecleaning: Twin Cities Housecleaning at Its Best

CottageCare is on a mission. The locally owned housecleaning service wants everyone in the Twin Cities to live in immaculately clean homes – without having to clean them themselves.CottageCare’s mission goes far beyond dispatching earnest, hard-working, and thoroughly vetted and trained professionals to their clients’ homes. CottageCare doesn’t solely owe their 4.8 star rating on Google reviews to their exhaustive 172-item cleaning checklist, or their foundational commitment to exclusively using...

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Shopping

The Mustard Seed: Holiday Gifts With Heart

There is only one good use for the internet: reading interesting articles about fun places to go holiday shopping near Eden Prairie, such as The Mustard Seed Landscaping & Garden Center.The internet certainly is no place for shopping (unless you are specifically shopping for plants and landscaping materials on The Mustard Seed’s website). There is no guarantee of authenticity or quality. The delivery person, through no admitted fault of their own, may deliver the thing badly broken, and send...

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Local Services

College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving: Eden Prairie’s Most Convenient Way to Move

Got a whole lot of stuff that needs moving in Eden Prairie? Don’t move it yourself! Let another back do the heavy lifting. Let another brain handle the logistics while you’re at it. Request a free estimate from College HUNKS today!Eden Prairie Moving ServicesCollege HUNKS is the full-service moving company that truly goes any distance. Are your starting point and destination both Eden Prairie? College HUNKS’ hourly service will make your move easy and affordable. The local moving company...

Education

Culture Through Cuisine

Leadership Begins With Understanding People Article by David Scheller The United States’ Latino population exceeded 68 million in 2024. Their total contribution to the GDP that same year? Greater than all of Japan: $4.4 trillion. That’s trillion , with a t . If you lead a business or other organization – and you’re reading this article in your mother tongue – then that presents a challenge. How do you connect with such valuable consumers? And how can you better incorporate such valuable...

Food + Beverage

Redstone American Grill

Meet Chef Carlos Article by David Scheller | Photography by Real Media MN I worked in a high-end restaurant kitchen some years ago. Chef Jeff, bristly yet brilliant, was its king. He once critiqued a sous chef’s hummus so unfavorably that she quit in tears right on the spot. But my heavens, could that man cook. One day, Chef Jeff learned that one of his cooks had committed the unspeakable offense of attending cooking school. “ Ha ,” he sneered over a half-constructed salmon crêpe. “You wasted...

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Office Golf

America’s Largest Golf Simulator Establishment Is So Much More Article by David Scheller GO PLAY GOLF IN THE SNOW AND ICE. It’s an unsurpassable experience if you enjoy: Getting snow and ice inside your mittens Losing your ball constantly, because some genius at Titleist decided to make golf balls the same color as snow and ice Slipping on snow and ice, which may give you valid cause to patronize fine local businesses such as Cadence Chiropractic, Family Podiatry Clinic, and Summit...

Life + Culture

Coffee, Causes & Conversation

The Eden Prairie Community Foundation and Helping Paws Unite the Nonprofit Community Article by David Scheller What is a nexus? A Japanese luxury car? No. You’re thinking of Ninfiniti. A nexus is a connection between people, things, or ideas. For example, Eden Prairie Lifestyle is your nexus to every business in the southwest metro worthy of your patronage. You’ll find many such nexuses in the commercial sector. You just happen to be holding the best one. Go ahead. Feel that high-quality...