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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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Wayzata, MN
Wayzata sits on the northern shore of Lake Minnetonka, one of the largest and most developed recreational lakes in the entire Twin Cities region, and its compact downtown along Lake Street has built a genuine small-town lakefront character around boating, sailing, and waterfront dining. The city's history as a lake resort destination dates back to the late 19th century, when wealthy Minneapolis families began building summer estates along Minnetonka's shoreline specifically to escape the city heat, a pattern that established the area's enduring reputation as one of the more exclusive lakefront addresses in the entire state. Wayzata's historic railroad depot, built in 1906 for what was then the Great Northern Railway, has been preserved and repurposed as a public building along the lakefront, giving the small city's walkable downtown a direct architectural link back to its resort-town origins. Wayzata's combination of direct Lake Minnetonka waterfront access, a genuine 19th-century lake-resort history, and a walkable, well-preserved historic downtown has made it one of the most consistently desirable and expensive small lakefront communities anywhere in the greater Minneapolis metropolitan area.
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