Minneapolis Density & Growth - General Discussion

[StandishGuy]

What? Of course the Minneapolis 2040 Plan was designed to grow the City's population. It upzoned the entire land mass encouraging higher densities... in some cases very high densities. I guess it's debatable whether it's disappointing or not that the growth hasn't happened, but the plan most certainly was designed to support it. Obviously, there have been many factors that have limited housing construction like COVID, work from home, crime, high interest rates, etc.... I personally am disappointed that we haven't seem more infill to support small businesses, transit and the tax base.

[StandishGuy]

In July, the Metropolitan Council released their 2025 forecasts for City populations in the Metro area. They estimate that Minneapolis has a population of 435,246... about 5k above the official 2020 U.S. Census count. I was hoping that the growth from last decade would continue and we would hit 475k. We'll be lucky to hit 44k, however.

They have St. Paul at 313,000.. about 2k higher than the U.S. Census count. Here’s the link to the data: https://metrocouncil.org/Data-and-Maps/ ... 0Estimates

[Tiller]

Lowkey I was hoping for high growth numbers like that too. The only way we'll probably get that would be if we made a public bank that offered lower-interest loans to get dense infill housing built. That would have to be a MN state-chartered Bank for it to be large enough to work.