Local lore in Irving, Duluth, Minnesota

• More duplexes than anywhere else in this guide. The tract's 13.4% two-unit share is the highest we record, and it is the clearest surviving evidence of how the neighborhood housed a working waterfront.
• It is flat, and in Duluth that is a feature. Irving is one of the few neighborhoods here where terrain is not the defining daily fact.
• The park is the centre. Irving Park and Playfield gives the neighborhood a gathering place that several of its neighbors simply do not have.
• Grassy Point reaches into the bay at the southern edge, shared shoreline between restored estuary habitat and working industrial ground.
• You can walk to groceries on level ground. From much of Irving the Spirit Valley strip is a genuine walk rather than a theoretical one.
• The tract is Irving's own. Unusually for this guide, the Census figures here are not shared with another written neighborhood, so they describe this place more closely than most of our tract data does.

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