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Why Is Project North Needed? <br /> An Historic Pattern of Inequity <br /> The inequities of development started with Twin Cities International Airport and <br /> Metropolitan Stadium, and continued with the New Zoo, Canterbury Downs and <br /> Valley Fair. It seems that each new development, each new project requiring <br /> state sanction or funding, has gone to the cities south and west of Minneapolis and <br /> St. Paul. <br /> And it has not been just the major developments that have been won by the <br /> southwest areas. There is the attendant infrastructure: roads and bridges had to be <br /> upgraded, sewer and water were installed, existing electric and gas utilities were <br /> extended and improved. <br /> People followed the development to fill the many jobs that resulted, bringing with <br /> them purchasing power. This purchasing power translated into the construction of <br /> homes, schools, libraries,recreational facilities and churches. Small and medium- <br /> sized service-oriented businesses also sprung up totserve a growing, and dispro- <br /> portionately wealthy population. <br /> Consequently, the southwest area of the Twin Cities today uses its recent history <br /> of growth and development to make it easy for business and government to look <br /> there first when planning new projects or expansion. Rather than lessening, the <br /> inequity between Project Nor[l: and non-north areas shows evidence of dramati- <br /> cally increasing as witnessed by the proposed Mega Mall and new airporl, <br /> 2 Northern Mayors Association <br />