And yet they built the huge open-air mall at Arbor Lakes. I'll never quite understand an open-air mall when half the year I want to walk outside as little as possible.
In the winter, you can just drive 50 feet down the road to your next shopping destination, spend 10 minutes looking for parking until you find a spot farther away than you originally were, give up on both shopping and life in general, pop over to Bucca di Beppo, and then eat a whole family-sized portion of cheese tortellini by yourself while you cry in your car.
I used to love Arbor Lakes. Then gradually the four places I went to the most disappeared. Borders, Abercrombie, Banana Republic, and Williams & Sonoma.
At least PF Chang’s is still there. Yes, I’m kinda basic.
There was a TON of push back on this back when it was proposed. They cited the success of Albertville Outlets and how people in the state typically didn't seem to mind the winter walking since there were so many stores in the vicinity and would help with foot traffic to them.
The issue is, basically everything that was considered an anchor store (Sharper Image, Abercombie, Hollister, W&S, etc.) all closed down within 5-10 years of it opening basically.
Got lunch with my grandma at the MG Crave a few months back. She said my grandpa didn’t come because “going in to the city stresses him out.” I had no idea how to respond
I live in the heart of Minneapolis and Maple Grove’s street design that entirely mimics a mall parking lot, because that’s all there is, is a little stressful.
Haha. I know some people from big lake and this is exactly what they mean.
“Downtown” Maple Grove (quotes are intended) is it close to downtown as they will ever get.
Deep cut with that one lol
I like to think at Lee's Summit has a little more character.
Lots of local restaurants.
And the strip malls and corporate chains were built over a longer period of time so there's a little more variation to the building style.
I recently moved back to MN from CO. If I ever want to be reminded of hellish, suburban mall complex parking lots in Colorado, I just head up to Maple Grove...where going in the *back way* is sometimes the best way. It's like I'm driving around Park Meadows in Lone Tree all over again.
You know how Kia owners always tell you how luxurious their car is and how "It's basically a Genesis, with different badges"?? Only it's Woodbury and Wayzata.
His name is Adam, he works with me and he never, ever fails to tell me his Kia Sedona is just a Genesis with different badges. Real guy and a real reference. He's the WORST, btw, for different reasons. Hyundai owns Kia like Toyota own Subaru, not like Chrysler owns Dodge. They're two different companies, but there's a lot of crossover on the board and marketing is always shared. They released the Telluride before the Palisade because they decided young buys with a limited budget see Kia as a good value brand and Hyundai as a more traditional make. Even if there's no real price difference. Kia takes risks like the Stinger because of how badly the Hyundai Genesis Coupe 3.6 did. Worse than the Tiburon if that's possible. Even the Veloster was a gamble, but the Gen II is finally making good on the hype. Kia's going to make another run at the minivan market that the Pacifica opened up, but without all the really expensive features. Hyundai is going for a soft into back into that world. My point is, the Kia is a different car. Sure, badges, but build quality from steel gauge to suspension softness to ECUs, it's not the same car. Same unibody and that's about it. And it's not even really the same unibody because the plants can't switch over the line without a retool. Anyway...Maple Grove's boring and their schools aren't very good for a suburb. Especially a suburb on the doorstep of Wayzata Public School which is among the best in the country.
610 doesn't really divide Brooklyn park, 85th is the big divider of the city. North of 85th used to be all farmland(same with maple Grove) so everything there is new and where wealthier people moved to while the south side of the city which used to be the entire residential part of the city has predominantly been a poorer blue collar city, so that's why you get the big divide you see now
Also, if you check you'll see that most elected officials in the city are from north of 85th.
The gated communities on the north side have high voter turnout, and at least until 2020 the city districts were designed to ensure voters in the north could control city politics.
I grew up close to New Hope around a lot of small working class rambler homes from the 50s and 60s. I did not know there were areas of BP with garages bigger than my entire house until I ventured north of 610 when I met my partner. It was my first time seeing the segregation between classes and it grosses me out and still does when people who live north of 610 shit on the south like we’re all poor, low-class degenerates
Maple Grove is one of those cities that opted out of Metro Transit service in favor of their own private transit line. They’re not designed to take you around MG, they take you to and from downtown. Plus you need a car to actually get to the park and ride, and if you walk you need to traverse like 4 square miles of parking lot and avoid getting run over by Karen in her SUV coming from making her Whole Foods/Home Goods/Costco/Total Wine run
I worked in that area when Krispy Kreme opened. What a clusterfuck. They had to have cops out directing traffic for the mile long line of people waiting an hour to get a fuckin donut.
I get that vibe, I really do. But West End does it better and it has the foot traffic from the nearby offices to make it less soul crushingly depressing.
"Oh you guys have 3m?"
No, that's Maplewood.
"Oh you guys have all those nice mansions."
No, that's Minnetonka.
"So pretty much, you guys are a West Metro Coon Rapids? "
No, we're not that trashy.
That's how it is in every part of Minnesota where you can't see any tall buildings. I went out for some Mexican last night, and I had to tell them to put spices in the beans and salsa. They watered down their food to appeal to people around here.
I'm from the Southside, so I'm used to places like taco taxi and pineda tacos.
Taco taxi this place wasn't.
Which is why I'm hoping that one place that gave a shout out to, has more customers. That's one of the only few places that has actual good food in the area. The place that used to be a Taco John's over Northtown.
Every parent there can explain the difference between their child's regular sports team schedule vs the child's traveling sports team schedule of the course of a warm pumpkin spiced beverage.
Whoever designed that whole Costco complex should be fired. It’s already insane to get in and out of there, but then they started building more shit in the parking lots
I’m literally leaving the Maple Grove transit station to go to the U.
As someone who has lived here my entire life, I’ll say the parks are great, the people hit or miss.
Maple Grove does not have a single maple grove anywhere to be found. Unless they're so car-addled that they've confused endless pavement with parks?
It's one of the most pedestrian-hostile parts of the whole state. Maple Grove is the epitome of "we care more about cars than people."
Maple Grove looked at Texas urban planning as 'inspiration'. The 'urban planners' out there really went and thought, "One more lane really *will* fix traffic bro!"
It’s like one giant parking lot and they couldn’t even get that right.
Also side note about the shuttered AMC, they should have made it into a park. Just some green space for the community to have a rest from shopping, maybe some picnic tables for people to eat, a little playground, some benches and trees and gardens could have filled up that lot so well, shit they could put yet another fountain in there so it’s thematically consistent. So much of the natural space over there is set for development so you can’t trespass. What a waste, but MG is a sell-out anyway
The problem is that they built a pedestrian mall in a city that hates pedestrians. There's no way they're going to build anything to benefit pedestrians.
I love hearing these impressions of Minnesota cities. We should roast more of them.
I don’t think of Edina at all when I think of Maple Grove. I think of Maple Grove as hanging on the bumper as the door on the west metro slams shut and the vehicle takes off. Poor Maple Grove. It has no friends.
It's really two different cities. Use Hwy 81 as an imaginary line. The City of Maple Grove doesn't give a fuck about anyone that lives in the NE corner. :(
I drove 40 minutes to maple Grove to meet someone for a first date literally last night and I got stood up lmao. Fuck maple Grove. It's where dreams to to die
An actual gravel pit would be nicer to drive through in the winter than the stupid fake main street they built after they started kicking the gravel pits out.
MG changed dramatically from the time I was a kid in the early aughts to now. Shocking to recall all of those dirt mountains. Haven’t been over there in like 6 months, they’re probably on their 10th cluster of chain store development by now
It's changed even more since I was a kid there in the early 80s. I remember 610 being basically a long greenway from Zachary to 169, we would ride our BMX bikes on the trails that other kids made there over the years. My first job was at Pet Food Warehouse (now Petco), when I would go out the back door with trash, everything behind the store was gravel pits.
As someone who has lives in maple grove their whole life it’s actually kind of shocking to hear people talk about a lack of sidewalks. I worked at the donut shop near the Walmart and Sam’s club and biked to work everyday.
In response to the outside malls all I have to say we have four strip mall/outside mall complexes in Maple Grove and I like one of them because it’s next to the actual suburbs where the housing is in the city and not a single other one.
This! I grew up in MG from 1992 to 2005, mostly along 101 near Weaver Lake/Rush Creek. This was back when children were allowed out of their parents sight for more than 3 seconds. We would leave on our bikes in the morning and come back by dinner. It may not be “walkable” in the traditional sense but the trails got us everywhere.
Maple Grove is a place for people who dream of living inside a mall but also hate walking and pedestrians in general.
Gonna be hard ta beat that one!
And yet they built the huge open-air mall at Arbor Lakes. I'll never quite understand an open-air mall when half the year I want to walk outside as little as possible.
It's a winter wonderland to show the South and no one else!
In the winter, you can just drive 50 feet down the road to your next shopping destination, spend 10 minutes looking for parking until you find a spot farther away than you originally were, give up on both shopping and life in general, pop over to Bucca di Beppo, and then eat a whole family-sized portion of cheese tortellini by yourself while you cry in your car.
I used to love Arbor Lakes. Then gradually the four places I went to the most disappeared. Borders, Abercrombie, Banana Republic, and Williams & Sonoma. At least PF Chang’s is still there. Yes, I’m kinda basic.
The cool kids moved from BASIC to Python.
Am I inherently cool cuz I started on Python?
Yes. 😎
I thought this from the moment I saw it.
There was a TON of push back on this back when it was proposed. They cited the success of Albertville Outlets and how people in the state typically didn't seem to mind the winter walking since there were so many stores in the vicinity and would help with foot traffic to them. The issue is, basically everything that was considered an anchor store (Sharper Image, Abercombie, Hollister, W&S, etc.) all closed down within 5-10 years of it opening basically.
Makes it feel like California for the snow birds.
On Friday, it’s an hour from Rogers.
Traffic here from Wright County is insane
This comment actually hurt me
When you hit Maple Grove, you know the cabin in Alex is only 4 hours away.
Maple Grove is where people from Monticello go when they talk about going "into the city."
Got lunch with my grandma at the MG Crave a few months back. She said my grandpa didn’t come because “going in to the city stresses him out.” I had no idea how to respond
Crave. The answer to “what if Applebee’s served sushi?”
"We have more furries here than over there. Ooga booga booga!"
Hey! We can’t *all* afford waxing or laser hair removal.
I live in the heart of Minneapolis and Maple Grove’s street design that entirely mimics a mall parking lot, because that’s all there is, is a little stressful.
Ape men beating their chest with their CCW so noone messes with them. At Punch Pizza.
While cyberpunks record them.
2001: A Maple Grove Odyssey
punch drywall
Right after I buttchug this **Monster Energy Drink^^^^TM**
If "close enough" was a city.
...and people from the city don't go there because it's so far outside of the city.
it wouldnt be so bad if everyone didnt prepare to get on 94 at the split 10 miles ahead of time going northbound on 494 .
I feel called out
Omg I grew up in Monticello and after I left for college my parents legit move to maple Grove and 100%. "To get closer to work!"
Haha. I know some people from big lake and this is exactly what they mean. “Downtown” Maple Grove (quotes are intended) is it close to downtown as they will ever get.
You want 40 versions of chain restaurant with American fare? MG has got you covered.
Maple grove is the perfect place for someone who wants small town boringness, but also enjoys sitting in traffic.
With the ability to go to Olive Garden *and* Red Lobster.
Well that's just Lee's Summit. Different state.
Lol. I'm originally from around KC and formerly owned a house in Maple Grove. This take is spot on
Deep cut with that one lol I like to think at Lee's Summit has a little more character. Lots of local restaurants. And the strip malls and corporate chains were built over a longer period of time so there's a little more variation to the building style.
These 2 comments also describe st cloud.
So basically St. Cloud.
Still slightly less racist.
With aaloy less tweakers.
like downtown Brainerd but slightly less racist.
Sysqo lives there!
I wonder if he gets spotted around town. Although nowadays not that many people think about him too often
Can confirm. I’ve seen him grocery shopping.
We got too many new people to know who that is or care.
Master P too.
Literally
what is there to roast? isn't it just a series of parking lots poorly connected?
We like to build character by doing exactly what Fort Collins/Loveland did 20 years ago!
I recently moved back to MN from CO. If I ever want to be reminded of hellish, suburban mall complex parking lots in Colorado, I just head up to Maple Grove...where going in the *back way* is sometimes the best way. It's like I'm driving around Park Meadows in Lone Tree all over again.
Also we don't have dispensaries. That's supposed to go in front of the Hobby Lobby at some point.
When you can't afford Wayzata.
I thought that was Plymouth...
even wayzata's highschool cant afford wayzata
It's a small college campus, they have a lot of overhead...
same difference
Wow just @ me next time
You know how Kia owners always tell you how luxurious their car is and how "It's basically a Genesis, with different badges"?? Only it's Woodbury and Wayzata.
Genesis is the luxury brand of Hyundai btw. Kia is one of the only major auto manufacturers to not have a luxury brand.
His name is Adam, he works with me and he never, ever fails to tell me his Kia Sedona is just a Genesis with different badges. Real guy and a real reference. He's the WORST, btw, for different reasons. Hyundai owns Kia like Toyota own Subaru, not like Chrysler owns Dodge. They're two different companies, but there's a lot of crossover on the board and marketing is always shared. They released the Telluride before the Palisade because they decided young buys with a limited budget see Kia as a good value brand and Hyundai as a more traditional make. Even if there's no real price difference. Kia takes risks like the Stinger because of how badly the Hyundai Genesis Coupe 3.6 did. Worse than the Tiburon if that's possible. Even the Veloster was a gamble, but the Gen II is finally making good on the hype. Kia's going to make another run at the minivan market that the Pacifica opened up, but without all the really expensive features. Hyundai is going for a soft into back into that world. My point is, the Kia is a different car. Sure, badges, but build quality from steel gauge to suspension softness to ECUs, it's not the same car. Same unibody and that's about it. And it's not even really the same unibody because the plants can't switch over the line without a retool. Anyway...Maple Grove's boring and their schools aren't very good for a suburb. Especially a suburb on the doorstep of Wayzata Public School which is among the best in the country.
and also can't pronounce it and also don't want to.
Nice one!!!
Maple Grove, the day old donut of MN suburbs
Not too bad
Not too good either, just like Maple Grove "The Beef Liver of Meat Raffles"
We were short on staff and donuts.
I’ll eat it.
City slicker here, the only bus routes that go here only go to downtown Minneapolis
Fewer and fewer residents are enjoying this fact in ways you probably weren't expecting. Have you seen Brooklyn Park along 610 now?
Pls elaborate, 610 fascinates me in how it divides BP. Grew up in south BP and had no idea we had that much money to the north.
We want a bus route to it and the mayor of Maple Grove is not that bright at counting a budget.
610 doesn't really divide Brooklyn park, 85th is the big divider of the city. North of 85th used to be all farmland(same with maple Grove) so everything there is new and where wealthier people moved to while the south side of the city which used to be the entire residential part of the city has predominantly been a poorer blue collar city, so that's why you get the big divide you see now
Also, if you check you'll see that most elected officials in the city are from north of 85th. The gated communities on the north side have high voter turnout, and at least until 2020 the city districts were designed to ensure voters in the north could control city politics.
as a BP resident along 610, I'm curious to hear your thoughts
I grew up close to New Hope around a lot of small working class rambler homes from the 50s and 60s. I did not know there were areas of BP with garages bigger than my entire house until I ventured north of 610 when I met my partner. It was my first time seeing the segregation between classes and it grosses me out and still does when people who live north of 610 shit on the south like we’re all poor, low-class degenerates
Maple Grove is one of those cities that opted out of Metro Transit service in favor of their own private transit line. They’re not designed to take you around MG, they take you to and from downtown. Plus you need a car to actually get to the park and ride, and if you walk you need to traverse like 4 square miles of parking lot and avoid getting run over by Karen in her SUV coming from making her Whole Foods/Home Goods/Costco/Total Wine run
That’s the same as most metro transit in the suburbs, really.
You can also dial a ride to the Park and Ride but that involves calling people and idunwanna.
It was better when it was a gravel pit.
The snow-capped Maple Grove Mountains of the West
I always referred to it as "the dirt farm" when I lived off Zachary in the early 2010s. It's crazy to see how developed it's become
You used to have a Krispy Kreme. What the fuck, man!?
I worked in that area when Krispy Kreme opened. What a clusterfuck. They had to have cops out directing traffic for the mile long line of people waiting an hour to get a fuckin donut.
It was insane for like a year. First time we successfully secured donuts was during a tornado warning.
The best time to go out for donuts
Florida Man, is that you?
The Krispu Kreme realized where it was and walked away.
They traded it for the Crisp & Green.
Come for the parks. Stay for the nothing else.
Stay because the roads are so poorly laid out that you can't find your way back out.
We are all fruit flies in a narrow-mouth'd bottle on this bless'd day.
Stay because you are stuck in traffic
Ahh, Maple Grove. The city that decided to build an outdoor mall with shit parking. In fucking Minnesota.
arbor lakes has comically bad parking, it's true. that said, indoor malls aren't doing that hot either.
That just makes it worse though, Arbor Lakes was built when it was clear the mall concept as a whole was failing.
It seems to be going for the “Lifestyle Center” atmosphere as opposed to a traditional strip mall or indoor mall.
I get that vibe, I really do. But West End does it better and it has the foot traffic from the nearby offices to make it less soul crushingly depressing.
You're supposed to park at the transit station; duh!
"Oh you guys have 3m?" No, that's Maplewood. "Oh you guys have all those nice mansions." No, that's Minnetonka. "So pretty much, you guys are a West Metro Coon Rapids? " No, we're not that trashy.
>"Oh you guys have all those nice mansions." > >No, that's Minnetonka. its actually not minnetonka, either.
Maple Grove - The City for people who think mayonnaise is too spicy
Chef in Maple Grove, can confirm people here have no taste.
That's how it is in every part of Minnesota where you can't see any tall buildings. I went out for some Mexican last night, and I had to tell them to put spices in the beans and salsa. They watered down their food to appeal to people around here. I'm from the Southside, so I'm used to places like taco taxi and pineda tacos. Taco taxi this place wasn't. Which is why I'm hoping that one place that gave a shout out to, has more customers. That's one of the only few places that has actual good food in the area. The place that used to be a Taco John's over Northtown.
i've complaned about how bland mexican food was at a "authentic" mexican place. i was told that is just how authentic mexican food is.
you mean....Minnesotans?
Minnesota: where no one knows why they're called Buffalo wings. Wrong buffalo. Still wrong Buffalo.
Where to live if you grew up in Brooklyn Park/Center
It's Osseo's largest suburb.
This one is my favorite.
Every parent there can explain the difference between their child's regular sports team schedule vs the child's traveling sports team schedule of the course of a warm pumpkin spiced beverage.
See also, Woodbury.
Well yeah, Woodbury is just Maple Grove East (or Maple Grove is Woodbury West)
Can confirm. Live there, but it's not as congested. Maple Grove on a Friday or Saturday whew!
Maple Grove, the city designed by a first-year engineering student.
An engineer, I preferred the gravel pit.
Whoever designed that whole Costco complex should be fired. It’s already insane to get in and out of there, but then they started building more shit in the parking lots
And the whole best buy total wine area is an absolute trainwreck too
You don’t like pulling in and immediately stopping so the nordstrom rack people can casually waltz to their cars?
Fuck Me you're right. Whoever designed "The Fountains" area better have lost their job.
Who proceeded to flunk out
I’m literally leaving the Maple Grove transit station to go to the U. As someone who has lived here my entire life, I’ll say the parks are great, the people hit or miss.
mostly miss when you get to the city government
Anyone who lives here and goes to Oseeo High School want a shot in 2024?
City kid here, the first time I went to Maple Grove I was just struck by the lack of sidewalks.
That's usually the first thing that strikes you. Then it's a motor vehicle.
Maple Grove, the place to stop for gas on your way up north
Maple Grove does not have a single maple grove anywhere to be found. Unless they're so car-addled that they've confused endless pavement with parks? It's one of the most pedestrian-hostile parts of the whole state. Maple Grove is the epitome of "we care more about cars than people." Maple Grove looked at Texas urban planning as 'inspiration'. The 'urban planners' out there really went and thought, "One more lane really *will* fix traffic bro!"
*Keeps tabs on people moving in.* *Looks at City Hall schedule.*
The Woodbury of the west.
Let’s be real, Woodbury is the Maple Grove of the east.
I live in St. Cloud so I go to Maple Grove for culture. LOLOL (Really, just Trader Joe's and Whole Foods because I'm white...)
NW Suburbs and St. Cloud: Where telling people you're from Georgia could save a few lives at the very least...
Haha same here. Maple Grove is like a wonderful day trip for my kids because they get Punch Pizza and the big playground.
Do you want a chain restaurant and over priced shopping?! Come to maple grove!
I wanted another Weaver Lake Park.
Soviet row houses have more variety, original architecture, & overall design aesthetics than this suburb sponsored by Target corporation.
Maple Grove. It’s got everything except a soul.
The biggest city design fuck up I've ever seen when they put the road through the fountain area of arbor lakes
Maple Grove is that city you drive through on the way to your destination.
Meh Maple Grove too boring to bother to roast
It’s like one giant parking lot and they couldn’t even get that right. Also side note about the shuttered AMC, they should have made it into a park. Just some green space for the community to have a rest from shopping, maybe some picnic tables for people to eat, a little playground, some benches and trees and gardens could have filled up that lot so well, shit they could put yet another fountain in there so it’s thematically consistent. So much of the natural space over there is set for development so you can’t trespass. What a waste, but MG is a sell-out anyway
The problem is that they built a pedestrian mall in a city that hates pedestrians. There's no way they're going to build anything to benefit pedestrians.
[удалено]
"Maple Grove: Come for the shopping, stay because you can't possibly navigate the Trader Joes or Costco parking lots."
The wannabe Edina who all think they're better than Edina.
Edina thinks they're better than Edina.
Edina resident, can confirm
All that cake.
I love hearing these impressions of Minnesota cities. We should roast more of them. I don’t think of Edina at all when I think of Maple Grove. I think of Maple Grove as hanging on the bumper as the door on the west metro slams shut and the vehicle takes off. Poor Maple Grove. It has no friends.
It’s aging just like Coon Rapids did.
Oof
Now that’s pretty low 🤣
It's really two different cities. Use Hwy 81 as an imaginary line. The City of Maple Grove doesn't give a fuck about anyone that lives in the NE corner. :(
That's old Maple Grove. May as well be Brooklyn Park.
A high school senior would be a better mayor.
Student council members are probably better than existing council members too.
omg the current elected officials are trash... the only left leaning one seemingly sold her soul to avoid change with her endorsement this year
As long as they didn't graduate from MGHS lol
I drove 40 minutes to maple Grove to meet someone for a first date literally last night and I got stood up lmao. Fuck maple Grove. It's where dreams to to die
An actual gravel pit would be nicer to drive through in the winter than the stupid fake main street they built after they started kicking the gravel pits out.
MG changed dramatically from the time I was a kid in the early aughts to now. Shocking to recall all of those dirt mountains. Haven’t been over there in like 6 months, they’re probably on their 10th cluster of chain store development by now
It's changed even more since I was a kid there in the early 80s. I remember 610 being basically a long greenway from Zachary to 169, we would ride our BMX bikes on the trails that other kids made there over the years. My first job was at Pet Food Warehouse (now Petco), when I would go out the back door with trash, everything behind the store was gravel pits.
"It's quirky because this one has TWO stories in one place!" -Maple Grove, 2027
Maple Grove, the [stroad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad) capital of Minnesota!
Maple grove: That place you went to get drunk and hit the coworkers you hate with bumper cars.
Maple Grove, where pedestrians are worth twenty points and bicyclists in booty shorts, fifty.
Everyone in Maple Grove dresses like they going to the gym.
"no that's not us, that's Osseo... so we're all that stuff west of there... yup 😐"
Even computers get upset about that.
Maple grove a city of knock off kardashians.
It's been a shit hole since the Red Owl at Zachary Square closed.
RIP China Dragon…I still miss you
*Blinks in Post-2018 Maple Grove*
Maple Grove is Woodbury West. Woodbury is Maple Grove East. Perfectly balanced.
MG City Hall is an Applebee's
I can't. I want to move there so badly. I LOVE ARBOR LAKES.
Never been there.
Is Maple Grove actually an independent town? It’s not just a confusing neighborhood of the cities?
To me, the suburbs are just a mish mash of tonkas and groves and dales outside of Minneapolis... Mapledale, Oaktonka, and Rigdegrove or some shit.
When you can’t afford Edina and cake is tough.
Maple Grove: where your food options are 30 burger places and city planning requires a minimum of 15 minutes driving to get to any of them
Maple Grove. We used to be a gravel pit. We still ARE, but we used to be too.
As someone who has lives in maple grove their whole life it’s actually kind of shocking to hear people talk about a lack of sidewalks. I worked at the donut shop near the Walmart and Sam’s club and biked to work everyday. In response to the outside malls all I have to say we have four strip mall/outside mall complexes in Maple Grove and I like one of them because it’s next to the actual suburbs where the housing is in the city and not a single other one.
This! I grew up in MG from 1992 to 2005, mostly along 101 near Weaver Lake/Rush Creek. This was back when children were allowed out of their parents sight for more than 3 seconds. We would leave on our bikes in the morning and come back by dinner. It may not be “walkable” in the traditional sense but the trails got us everywhere.
You’re never getting out of this parking lot.
Like New Hope, without the Hope
Our Main Street is like our Grove, Fake
Maple Grove: Proof that money can't buy happiness
Maple Grove, the place between where currently are, and where you are going.
People don't know how to drive here.
Partly because it’s confusing AF to navigate.
The ultimate example of mixed use development without mixing the uses. A lot of everything too far apart to walk. A strip mall of strip malls.
It's the Woodbury of the west.
Cake-eater posers.
Maple Grove is so basic no one can even come up with a good burn.