With a Bumpy Ride in the Rearview, Downtown Mill Valley Businesses Are Primed for a Massive Bounceback

With a Bumpy Ride in the Rearview, Downtown Mill Valley Businesses Are Primed for a Massive Bounceback

For downtown restaurants, boutiques and service businesses, it’s been a weird, wild ride – a pair of major construction projects delivered major upgrades. There was disruption, and the feeling among some as we came into 2024 that wet weather and a malaise among our...
Marin IJ: Homestead Valley’s Tim Ryan Creates Whimsical Public Art Projects, Garners 2023 Milley Award

Marin IJ: Homestead Valley’s Tim Ryan Creates Whimsical Public Art Projects, Garners 2023 Milley Award

Readers of this space know that we are longstanding Tim Ryan enthusiasts, particularly for his unending creativity and community spirit – see here, here and here, to name just a few. But Ryan has devotees in spades, and we can count the Marin Independent Journal among...
With Construction Waning, Let’s Eat, Drink, Shop, Gather & Enjoy Mill Valley’s Return to Expanded Lunch and Dinner Service Again!

With Construction Waning, Let’s Eat, Drink, Shop, Gather & Enjoy Mill Valley’s Return to Expanded Lunch and Dinner Service Again!

The Blithedale Project and the Downtown Project, a complete makeover of one of Mill Valley’s two main arterials AND the centerpiece of its downtown, has been vitally important, necessary work. But it’s also been a long slog, and our merchants, restaurants, galleries,...