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The Loring Park neighborhood is bordered by
I-94 to the south, Hennepin/Lyndale Avenues to
the west, Hawthorne Avenue to the North and
12th Street marks the boundary between it and
the core downtown.
The neighborhood is one that can truly be
called diverse and unique in many ways. It is
primarily an adult community comprised of
young professionals, retired suburban
homeowners seeking the benefits of urban
living and a growing population of eastern
European immigrants. Total population
according to the 2000 census is 7,501, an
increase of 14% since 1990. The median age is
36.3, mostly white and only 176 households
with individuals under the age of 18. We love
to live together given the fact that there are
virtually no single-family dwellings in the
neighborhood!
Loring Park is located on the North end of the
Whitney bridge that spans Hennepin/Lyndale,
across from the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
Loring Park is home to a series of bike and
walking paths that wind around the lake and
gardens. The park is sometimes called the hub
of the Grand Rounds Byway as you can take
these paths around the entire city of
Minneapolis.
Constructed in 1998 and planted in 1999, this
recent addition to the park system has been
very well received. Located just north of the
footbridge over Loring Pond, the center circle
garden will eventually be a woodland garden
dominated by birch trees shading understory
native wildflowers.
Until the birch trees mature, the understory
is being planted with a variety of annuals and
some wildflowers. Eight color wedge-shaped
beds surround the birch circle and feature
perennials and some annuals in shades of
yellow-orange, red-pink, blue-purple and
white. Beyond the color wedges are another set
of wedge-shaped beds called the tapestry of
color that feature evergreens, shrubs, grasses
and annuals.
Paved paths and benches surround the garden
and improved access into the park makes this
garden easily handicapped accessible. |
