minneapolis population

[Minneapolitan]

I love our geographical situation. You have to learn to embrace and appreciate our distinctness (is that a word?). Whenever people bring this topic to my attention, I always point out that St Paul is the other half of our central city. So basically, our center 'city' is nearly 700,000 people strong, surrounded by more than 2.5 million in the burbs. That usually gets people to change their perceptions of how we rank.

[Minneapolitan]

Originally Posted by Mistacoolio20

I would like Minneapolis to stay dense, I wouldn't want any suburb incorped in my city.

I'd take Richfield any day.

[texmpls]

Originally Posted by Minneapolitan

I'd take Richfield any day.

I agree, Richfield, Saint Louis Park, Golden Valley, Robbinsdale and Saint Anthony, maybe even parts of Bloomington or Bloomington as a whole are basically still Minneapolis, incorporating them would add more tax money to the city and boost our population to something like at least 600,000. That would also make us more prominent in the rest of the country, and I don't think we would lose density. Richfield isn't less dense than Nokomis for example.

[Bhaalspawn]

Originally Posted by michael31681

i was reading about how cities annex some of there suburbs to increase in size. minneapolis is barely in the top fifty in terms of most populated cities in the usa. minneapolis covers only 55 square miles with in the city limits. how can we compete. i was looking at chicago and that city covers over 200 square miles in the city limits. omaha nebraska has more people then minneapolis. will minneapolis ever do this to increase in population? im from minneapolis and im proud of its sucess but i would like to see it hang with the big time cities.

Oh, come now. I'm sure most people consider the entire size of a city's metropolitan area when they compare bit city sizes. Annexing the suburbs and suburbanites who do not want to be annexed is not the answer to anything.

[Bhaalspawn]

Originally Posted by Steve_W

Yes, it does hang with other big cities. Also, from what I know Minneapolis hasn't had most of the troubles Detroit and St. Louis has had pertaining to their annexation policies.

Detroit has an annexation policy? Anyone living in the cities to be "annexed" would scream and holler bloody murder if that were the case. Heck, a couple years back the suburb of East Detroit wisely changed its name to Eastpointe.