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Edina, MN
Edina is home to Southdale Center, which opened in 1956 as the first fully enclosed, climate-controlled shopping mall in the United States — architect Victor Gruen designed it specifically to bring a European-style indoor town square to a Minnesota suburb that had to contend with brutal winters, and the concept went on to reshape American retail development for the rest of the 20th century. The city's public schools have consistently ranked among the strongest in Minnesota, and Edina's residential streets, built out substantially through the mid-20th century as one of the Twin Cities' earliest planned suburbs, have kept a reputation as one of the more consistently affluent communities in the entire Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. Edina's Country Club neighborhood, developed in the 1920s around a private golf club and built with unusually strict architectural covenants for its era, remains one of the more historically preserved planned residential districts anywhere in the Twin Cities. Edina's combination of hosting the literal birthplace of the modern indoor shopping mall, consistently top-ranked schools, and well-preserved early-20th-century planned neighborhoods has made it one of the most historically significant and consistently desirable suburbs anywhere in the greater Minneapolis area.
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Eden Prairie, MN
Eden Prairie sits along the Minnesota River valley southwest of Minneapolis, and it's grown since the 1970s and '80s from a largely agricultural township into one of the larger and more corporate-employment-dense suburbs in the entire Twin Cities metro area, home to a substantial concentration of corporate offices along the Highway 212 and Interstate 494 corridors. The city's extensive park and trail system, including Eden Prairie's own portion of the Minnesota River Bluffs regional trail network, has given the rapidly developed suburb a substantial amount of preserved natural space relative to its overall commercial and residential growth. Eden Prairie's public schools have consistently ranked among the strongest in Minnesota, a reputation that's been a significant driver of the city's sustained residential growth even as its commercial corridors have simultaneously expanded to accommodate a growing corporate employment base. Eden Prairie's combination of substantial corporate office development, an extensive preserved trail and park network along the Minnesota River valley, and consistently top-ranked schools has made it one of the more economically and recreationally balanced suburbs anywhere in the greater Minneapolis area.
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