In reply to David Greene.

Fantasy aside, it might be because you can buy entire blocks in North Minneapolis for a couple hundred thousand dollars? This is an incredibly expensive idea even in Downtown Minneapolis, where property values are very high and there's lots of already vacant land. It's not a bad idea, but we still have at least a decade of infilling to go before this would really be plausible. Furthermore, much of I-94 through the northside (the disadvantaged parts that I assume you're offended aren't listed here) borders industrial uses on one or more sides.