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It looks that way because it is exactly that, regardless of the gratuitous 'renaissance' rhetoric currently proliferating. RocketSci is apparently in the process of moving back to the city and may be in the midst of something of a honeymoon period here with his rediscovered mistress.
I never said it didn't many have empty and boarded up buildings, empty lots, and urban decay - that was exactly my point in that until that supply becomes fully redeveloped new infill will lag redevelopment. The fact that nearly 4000 residential units have been built or proposed through re-purposing vacant non-residential buildings shows both the scale of problem that existed, and how much activity has already occurred to reverse a 40-year trend.
I just went and viewed all of these. With the sole exception of the last one...wow, Minneapolis got some hideous color schemes, not just with the five buildings you pointed to in the first five links, but also in a few cases with others viewable when taking a 360 view from the same intersections. Brutal[ism would be better].
Ironically I feel like the last one is the worst - it is boring and monochromatic. I like the first one the best. All of them are better than Brutalism.
Many of the images posted look more like new developments than the traditional meaning of "infill" - which was inserting new buildings into an area of existing structures.
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