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Plymouth, Minnesota. Plymouth is one of the fastest
growing communities in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Its
strategic location, lakes, diverse housing stock and park system
continue to attract new residents and businesses. Plymouth covers
about 36 square miles. It is home to nearly 66,000 people and more
than 51,000 jobs. Insurance, high-tech research, light
manufacturing, printing and publishing, telecommunications and
computer-related industries are among the major employers in the
city.
Located ten miles northwest of downtown Minneapolis, Plymouth
offers residents and business people a strategic location. With
Interstate 494 running north to south through the center of the
city, Hwy. 55 bisecting the city east to west and Hwy. 169 running
along the eastern border, people who live and work in Plymouth have
easy access to Minneapolis, St. Paul and area suburbs.
You might call this one of the
"cutting edge" Twin City suburbs. Average home sale prices are above
$200,000; median household income is above $50,000/year; and quite a
few of the Plymouth dwellers earn over $75,000/year.
It's
an "upscale" place, but pleasant with nearly 70 miles of trails
connecting parks, schools, shopping areas and neighborhoods. There
are also 38 parks and recreational places. These include French
Regional Park, consciously designed as a child's adventure with its
jungle gym ropes and cargo nets, great hide-and-go-seek grounds and
slithering slides. Baker Park Reserve with a nice beach and
expansive picnicking grounds and Lake Independence for swimming and
water-skiing is just next door in Maple Plain. For serious shopping,
the very large Ridgedale Mall is close by in Minnetonka . And, yes,
there is a golf course.
Out on the edges of Plymouth you may
even find a place to board a horse or two. Riding around out there
on horseback takes us back to the days of the early residents, the
Wahpeton Sioux who camped near the north end of the large Medicine
Lake, one of 12 lakes in the city.
Plymouth has also become a haven for
businesses: large, small and medium-sized. Check out the impressive
encampment of office parks and the big industrial zone off Highway
55, just west of Highway 494. Corporate powers that have recently
landed in the city include: Prudential Insurance Co., Carlson
Companies, Control Data Corp. and U.S. West Communications.
School Districts
Four highly regarded school
districts serve Plymouth -
Wayzata
District 284,
Robbinsdale
District 281,
Osseo District
279 and
Hopkins District 270. The majority of the City (western and
southern areas) is served by Wayzata Schools. Robbinsdale Schools
serve the east-central area of Plymouth. The Osseo District includes
the northeast area and Hopkins includes the southeast corner of
Plymouth. Visit each district's web site for more information.
PLYMOUTH NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION
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