Eden Prairie Center marks 50 years as city’s ‘downtown’

Eden Prairie Center marks 50 years as city’s ‘downtown’

The cultural touchstone for Americans who live in suburbs might be the regional shopping mall: a climate-controlled substitute for the small-town Main Street that few metro-area cities have been able to recreate. For local residents — and folks from Chanhassen, Shakopee, Waconia, Glencoe and beyond — that suburban icon is Eden Prairie Center, a sprawling mass of concrete, brick, steel and glass that sprouted from pioneer farm fields and in 2026 …