Going Dutch: Are bike garages in your future?

As more retailers begin to adopt the Bonobos-style showroom store as their brick-and-mortar strategies, will bike garages become a new fixture in malls and shopping centers?



If so, the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands might prove the design test case. It just opened the first phase of what will be the world’s largest bike garage at the Central Train Station, a 184,000-sq.-ft. space capable of holding 12,500 bikes at full build-out.



Since the Hoog Catharijne shopping mall was built near the stationin the 1970s, traffic congestion has plagued the area and more bikers have filled the streets.



More such garages are planned for the bike-mad nation, which has more bicycles than people. An 8,500-bike garage is being built in The Hague and similar facilities are underway in Amsterdam and Delft.

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