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Lake Hiawatha, through which Minnehaha Creek flows, has a watershed of 115,840 acres (468.79 km 2), two orders of magnitude larger than the next largest watershed in the city. [3] Ryan Lake, in the city's north, sits partially in Minneapolis and partially in neighboring Robbinsdale.
Bde Maka Ska (/ b ə ˈ d eɪ m ə ˈ k ɑː s k ɑː / bə-DAY mə-KAH skah, [2] previously named Lake Calhoun) [3] [4] [5] is the largest lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, and part of the city's Chain of Lakes. Surrounded by city park land and circled by bike and walking trails, it is popular for many outdoor activities.
The park was established in the 1880s as the surrounding area was beginning to fill in with housing. [5] In 1883, the Minnesota Legislature and Minneapolis voters approved the founding of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB), and within months, residents of the area asking for a park around Powderhorn Lake. MPRB designated the lake ...
The name of the community refers to its most prominent physical features, the large and publicly accessible lakes Bde Maka Ska (formerly known as "Lake Calhoun") and Lake of the Isles. Calhoun-Isles is an affluent part of the city, and people of upper middle class means and above, including young professionals and older millionaires, inhabit ...
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) is an independent park district that owns, maintains, and programs activities in public parks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It has 500 full-time and 1,300 part-time employees and an $111 million operating and capital budget.
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A recent feasibility study by the Minneapolis Park Board shows a new bridge can be done, and that ideally it would span the new 26th Avenue Overlook in north Minneapolis and a vacant building that ...
Eat Street is the newest of Minneapolis's commercial districts, named in the late 1990s by the Whittier Alliance to promote the international variety of restaurants along Nicollet Avenue South between Grant St. and 29th St. [25] Nicollet was historically a central commercial district in the Whittier neighborhood, but the end of the streetcar ...