Bde Maka Ska-Isles, formerly called Calhoun-Isles, is one of the official communities (a grouping of several official

neighborhoods A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...

) in the U.S. city of

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. It is split between Ward 7 and Ward 10 of the

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, represented by councilmembers

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and

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, respectively. It contains the

Uptown Uptown may refer to: Neighborhoods or regions in several cities United States * Uptown, Chicago, Illinois * Uptown Manhattan, New York City, New York * Uptown, Richmond, Virginia * Uptown, Dallas, Texas * Uptown, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania * Upt ...

business district and the name "Uptown" is frequently (though somewhat incorrectly) used to refer to the entire community. The name of the community refers to its most prominent physical features, the large and publicly accessible lakes

Bde Maka Ska Bde Maka Ska ( , previously named Lake Calhoun) is the largest lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, and part of the city's Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway#Paths_around_lakes, Chain of Lakes. Surrounded by city park land and circled b ...

(formerly known as "Lake ''Calhoun''") and

Lake of the Isles Lake of the Isles ( Dakota: ''Wíta Tópa'', "Four Islands") is a lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected to Cedar Lake and Bde Maka Ska. The lake is part of the city's Chain of Lakes and has an area of , of shoreline with a little under three ...

. Bde Maka Ska-Isles is an affluent part of the city, and people of upper middle class means and above, including young professionals and older millionaires, inhabit the community.

Neighborhoods of Bde Maka Ska-Isles

* Bryn Mawr *

Cedar-Isles-Dean Cedar-Isles-Dean is a neighborhood in the Calhoun-Isles community in Minneapolis. Its boundaries are the Kenilworth Lagoon and Lake of the Isles to the north and east, West Lake Street to the south, and France Avenue South to the west. It is ...

* East Bde Maka Ska * East Isles * Kenwood * Lowry Hill * Lowry Hill East * South Uptown * West Maka Ska

References

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