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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.
I t'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.
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