Official Name: | West Maka Ska |
Settlement Type: | Neighborhood |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Type3: | City |
Subdivision Type4: | Community |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Name1: | Minnesota |
Subdivision Name2: | Hennepin |
Subdivision Name3: | Minneapolis |
Subdivision Name4: | Calhoun-Isles |
Seat Type: | City Council Ward |
Seat: | 7 |
Leader Title: | Council Member |
Leader Name: | Katie Cashman |
Established Title: | Founded |
Unit Pref: | US |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.674 |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 2,645 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | auto |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 55416 |
Area Code: | 612 |
West Maka Ska, formerly known as West Calhoun, is a neighborhood in the U.S. city of Minneapolis. The neighborhood was generally rural with a couple grain silos along the railroad track heading into Downtown Minneapolis until about the 1910s. Although the railroad still runs through the neighborhood, the neighborhood is now mainly homes, apartment buildings, and strip malls.[3]
West Maka Ska is the southwestern-most neighborhood of the Calhoun Isles community in the western part of the city. It is in Ward 7, represented by council member Katie Cashman.[4]
The neighborhood is bordered on the east by East Bde Maka Ska, the north by Cedar-Isles-Dean, the south by Linden Hills and the west by the city of St. Louis Park. Its boundaries are Lake Street to the north, Bde Maka Ska to the east, 36th Street to the south, and France Avenue to the west.
In 2020, the neighborhood voted to change their name to West Maka Ska from West Calhoun after the name change of Bde Maka Ska from Lake Calhoun.[5] [6]