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Employment
<br /> The City is centrally located within the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area which provides
<br /> City residents with easy access to employment opportunities throughout the metropolitan area.
<br /> Some of the larger employers within the City limits are:
<br /> Approximate
<br /> Number
<br /> Employer Product/Service of Employees
<br /> St. Anthony Health Center 150-Bed Nursing Home 250
<br /> Independent School District 282 Education 187
<br /> Apache Plaza Mall Shopping Center 115
<br /> Herbergers Merchandise Sales 85
<br /> Source: 1998 survey of individual employers.
<br /> St. Anthony's industrial park has approximately 25 small or medium-sized businesses, each
<br /> with employment ranging up to 50.
<br /> Labor Force Data
<br /> November 1998 November 1997
<br /> Civilian Unemployment Civilian Unemployment
<br /> Labor Force Rate Labor Force Rate
<br /> Hennepin County 673,502 1.5% 666,171 1.9%
<br /> Ramsey County 289,238 1.5 286,550 2.0
<br /> Mpls./St. Paul MSA 1,709,862 1.5 1,674,895 1.9
<br /> State of Minnesota 2,702,297 2.4 2,684,357 2.5
<br /> Source: Minnesota Department of Economic Security. 1998 data is preliminary.
<br /> Summary of City Building Permits
<br /> Residential
<br /> Total Permits Commercial/Industrial Single Family
<br /> Year Number Value Number Value Number Value
<br /> 1998 256 $ 5,761,050 248 $4,589,250 8 $1,171,800
<br /> 1997 302 9,953,478 57 6,453,578 245 3,499,900
<br /> 1996 226 10,496,600 45 8,542,400 181 1,953,200
<br /> 1995 205 2,764,940 56 1,745,140 2 1,099,800
<br /> 1994 222 1,635,000 31 539,500 2 1,046,500
<br /> 1993 258 2,365,280 47 1,388,480 1 976,800
<br /> 1992 229 2,445,015 10 878,400 8 190,000
<br /> 1991 197 2,654,350 21 615,250 19 1,218,000
<br /> 1990 183 4,110,450 17 633,500 28 2,748,000
<br /> Commercial development figures include several large building permits. $411,500 for Apache
<br /> Commons, $432,100 for a Unocal station, and $3,019,800 Cub Foods at Apache Plaza. In addition,
<br /> permits in the amount of$1,043,500 were issued for remodeling and repairing the middle/high school
<br /> and the middle high school library. The City was issued a permit in the amount of$3,000,000 for
<br /> building the new city hall/community center complex.
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