Every neighborhood needs a hardware store, whether it be for everyday upkeep or long term arrangements. True, there is always the bafflingly sized superstores, but generality demarcates their focus; a lack in specificity and comprehension belonging to smaller stores.Not to say that North Park Hardware is a small store. In 1991, when current-owner Sam Radda first bought the shop, he worked on tripling the available stock, as well as expanding the hours you could come check out the products. Now the shop has row upon row of choices, packed together in a near labyrinthine structure if not for the precision in order. All of this really seems the logical choice for a graduate from Michigan State in engineering. After all, if you enjoy the craft of construction, bulking up on tools and pieces equals an increase in potential machinations. But more than substantiating his own whims, the bulk in products has been good for North Park too. Many of the houses in the neighborhood have old fashioned