With over 250 miles of trails, Bentonville, Arkansas, calls itself the mountain biking capital of the world. It's now also home to what might be the world's first bikeable building — a six-story office and retail space called Ledger, which opened this spring.
Each of Ledger's stories is linked with exterior ramps that offer a unique cycling experience from the ground floor to the top. The distance from street level to the roof is three-quarters of a mile, with a gradient of 5%. Ledger workplace members — the building offers short-term office leases and co-working spaces — can bike straight to their floor. Ledger caters to cyclists with its unique design as well as with facilities like secure bike storage, e-bike charging points and showers on every floor for freshening up on arrival.
The ramps are open to all from 7 am to 5 pm on weekdays and not just for cyclists — pedestrians are welcome to stroll up to the roof on their lunch break or while taking a call. Ledger was designed by Michel Rojkind, Callaghan Horiuchi and Marlon Blackwell Architects.
