Burnsville, Minnesota Burnsville, Minnesota Grande Market Square at Nicollet Avenue and Burnsville Parkway is the cornerstone of the Heart of the City project.
Grande Market Square at Nicollet Avenue and Burnsville Parkway is the cornerstone of the Heart of the City project.
Flag of Burnsville, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Burnsvillewithin Dakota County, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Burnsville Website City of Burnsville Burnsville / b rnzv l/ is a town/city 15 miles (24 km) south of downtown Minneapolis in Dakota County in the State of Minnesota.
The town/city lies on the south bank of the Minnesota River, upstream from its confluence with the Mississippi River.
Burnsville and close-by suburbs form the southern portion of Minneapolis Saint Paul, the fifteenth biggest urbane region in the United States, with about 3.6 million residents.
Burnsville has many attractions, including its county-wide mall, Burnsville Center.
Minnesota River wildlife is protected by the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
Originally a non-urban Irish farming community, Burnsville became the tenth biggest city in Minnesota in the 2000 Enumeration following the assembly of Interstate 35.
Currently the ninth biggest suburb in the metro region and a bedroom improve of both Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the town/city was fully assembled by the late 2000s.
Burnsville's downtown region is called Heart of the City with urban-style retail and condominiums. The Burnsville Transit Station serves as the core and command posts of the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority, providing county-wide bus service to five other suburbs.
The Mdewakanton Dakota were the earliest inhabitants who came through the Minnesota River, following water fowl and game animals. As part of the greater migration of the Mdewakanton from their ancestral region around Mille Lacs Lake to the river confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, Chief Black Dog, around 1750, established his band at a permanent village at the isthmus between Black Dog Lake (from which is titled after him) and the Minnesota River, near the present site of the Black Dog Power Plant. The permanent camp was reported by early pioneer as being inhabited by over 250 Dakota.
At the south end of Burnsville, Crystal Lake, recorded as "Minne Elk" was utilized for abundant fish, leisure and burial. It was also a gathering spot where Dakota watched deer or bucks drink at the lake from the top of Buck Hill, in which was titled by early pioneer who witnessed this activity. Three large burial mounds were identified after European settlement. In 1858, the Dakota County Board authorized Byrnsville Township in the north by the Minnesota River, east by Eagan and Apple Valley, south by Lakeville, and west by Scott County.
There is some ambiguity of if the name actually derived from William Byrne since there were citizens with the surname "Burns" living in the region (a Scottish variant). The Town Clerk recorded variations between "Burns" and "Byrnes" but at the 1960s town/city incorporation, the "Burnsville" spelling prevailed.
Burnsville originally comprised the present-day downtown of Savage (then known as Hamilton) until county border revisions by the legislature.
In the 19th century, Burnsville was considered a long distance from downtown Minneapolis.
Rail access came in 1864 and Burnsville became a resort town, with cottages along Crystal Lake as well as Orchard Lake and Marion Lake in close-by Lakeville. The Bloomington Ferry provided river crossings until 1889 when the initial Bloomington Ferry Bridge was built.
By 1920, the Lyndale Avenue Drawbridge opened next to Black Dog Lake, extending Minneapolis' first north south highway to the non-urban communities of southern Minnesota.
Byrnesville Township was officially incorporated in 1964 after defeating an annexation attempt by the town/city of Bloomington. Mass housing evolution followed and a former mayor, Connie Morrison said town/city supervisors had foresight in producing shopping nodes in walking distance of most homes. The town/city became a county-wide pull when Burnsville Center opened in 1977 and produced the heavily traveled retail strip on County Road 42. The next decades dominant to the 21st century dealt with managing Burnsville's increasing populace and expansion which led to providing alternative transit options, diverse housing projects, and ultimately the "Heart of the City" project.
Fed by receding glaciers and Lake Agassiz 12,000 years ago, the Glacial River Warren carved today's Minnesota River valley.
On the northern border of Burnsville, the Minnesota River winds through marshland and flood plains toward its confluence with the Mississippi.
Burnsville also contains the Black Dog and Lower Minnesota River Watershed Districts managed by the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 26.93 square miles (69.75 km2), of which 24.91 square miles (64.52 km2) is territory and 2.02 square miles (5.23 km2) is water. Other routes in the town/city include Minnesota Highway 13 and County Road 42.
Irish descendants maintained the majority through the early 1950s owing to the town's origin, overall territory ownership, and the practice of marrying inside ethnic clans. The early 20th century's permanent populace remained very low as the Minnesota River's lack of bridges and streetcar connection isolated the region from development, preventing citizens from moving south of the river.
Enumeration Bureau recorded the populace of Byrnesville Township at 2,716 citizens and soon after, the postwar expansion was instantaneous, filling the town/city with second to third generation European descendants from Minneapolis; more American than ethnic.
Burnsville's biggest employer is its own school district, Independent School District 191, followed by Fairview Ridges Hospital, UTAS Sensor Systems, Northern Tool + Equipment, Pepsi-Cola Bottling, YRC, Mackin Educational Resources, Cub Foods, Frontier Communications, and AMS Holding. Manufacturing is the second biggest industry.
Retail shopping is positioned along County Road 42 and Highway 13 in the west and east sections of the town/city with small-town shopping nodes positioned throughout.
Burnsville has a 15 30 minute commute vicinity to many county-wide attractions and services such as the Mall of America, Valleyfair Amusement Park, Buck Hill Ski Area, the Minneapolis St.
Next to metros/cities of Apple Valley, Bloomington, Lakeville, and Savage furnish even more close-by shopping hubs, lakes and parks.
Burnsville's "Heart of the City" universal is a downtown evolution policy driven by smart growth, which aims to problematic an attractive, vibrant, and pedestrian-friendly neighborhood setting with economically viable small-town businesses.
The redevelopment encompasses 54 acres (220,000 m2) centrally positioned in Burnsville, a several miles south of the Minnesota River.
The 1150 seat post-modern style Burnsville Performing Arts Center, now The Ames Performing Arts Center, opened in January 2009.
The Ames Performing Arts Center is positioned at 12600 Nicollet Avenue in the Heart of the City.
The lobby is two stories tall, all glass, with a sweeping view of Nicollet Commons Park, the Minnesota River Valley, and the Minneapolis skyline.
While the town/city doesn't have exhibitions, it does operate the sole primary arts institution, the Lake Alimagnet Center for the Arts in easterly Burnsville next to Lake Alimagnet, which provides improve space for arts and non-profit groups. Burnsville is a county-wide prestige in youth and teen activities.
THE GARAGE Youth Center positioned near City Hall is a non-profit music club and teen center which has thriving music acts nationally and internationally. Homes and businesses in Burnsville receive the same television, news, and cable stations as most metro region cities, provided by Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
Burnsville Community Television (BCTV) provides enhance access programs and information.
The Burnsville Sun Current and Thisweek Newspapers supply small-town news and the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently created a South section dedicated to South of the River news.
The town/city contains 1,800 acres (7.3 km2) of parkland spread throughout 79 parks and is managed by the Burnsville Parks Department which follows a Parks & Trails Master Plan.
Burnsville north border with the Minnesota River is inside the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
Burnsville City Hall Burnsville operates as a Statutory Plan B town/city under the Minnesota Legislature.
Administrative duties including employment of the town/city are in charge of the City Manager.
Having been re-elected six times, she has served for over 14 years. Kautz's framework of progressive activeness and financial management has been studied and may explain her consecutive re-elections. She cites in her biography, that she has reduced Burnsville's debt, increased transit framework improvement, maintained the property tax scheduled decrease, established a new youth center, and oversaw the establishment of the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority. One of her primary redevelopment projects has been the Burnsville Heart of the City, identified through improve visioning as the intersecting commercial areas near Burnsville Parkway and Nicollet Avenue. In her winning 2008 re-election, the 1,000 seat county-wide performing arts center component was cited by her opponent as misuse of enhance funds toward arts. The town/city is situated in both Minnesota's 51st Senate District, and Minnesota's 56th Senate District.
Burnsville is positioned in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, represented by John Kline, a Republican.
Burnsville Independent School District 191, which includes Burnsville as well as parts of neighboring metros/cities Savage and Eagan, presently has: About 20.0% of Burnsville's students attend Independent School District 196 schools; they include: Apple Valley High School, and Valley Middle School, in Apple Valley; and Echo Park Elementary School in Burnsville.
About 10.0% of Burnsville's students attend Independent School District 194 schools; they include: Lakeville North High School, Kenwood Trail Middle School, and Orchard Lake Elementary all of which are in Lakeville.
Burnsville is a fully advanced suburban bedroom community.
The initial industrial region along the Minnesota River is mostly abandoned, and also contains a sealed land-fill site.
Minnesota Valley Transit Authority provides county-wide bus service between many transit hubs inside the city, south of the river, and to destinations such as the Mall of America, Downtown Minneapolis, and Southdale Mall. Most inhabitants commute and move around by car.
Burnsville contains the Interstate Highway 35 split with Interstate Highway 35 - W dominant to downtown Minneapolis and Interstate Highway 35 - E to downtown St.
The primary on and off-ramps for I-35 - W are positioned at Burnsville Parkway, County Road 42, and State Highway 13.
County Road 42 and State Highway 13 both furnish east west access to the suburb of Savage and the easterly suburbs of Eagan and Apple Valley.
Major interior arteries include Nicollet Avenue, Mc - Andrews Road (East 138th Street), County Road 5 (Kenwood Trail), County Road 11, Portland Avenue, Southcross Drive, and Lac Lavon Drive.
Burnsville Public Works draws water from wells and not the Minnesota River, supplying all homes and businesses.
Fairview Ridges Hospital positioned south of City Hall along Nicollet Avenue is a 24-hour facility, touting the most advanced emergency, surgery, orthopedic and childcare south of the river.
Cole Aldrich, Basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves was born in Burnsville, but moved to Bloomington at a young age.
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