Chief among these is soil stability. The BCV soils are even poorer quality than those under the Near North redevelopment. Soil problems may make the BCV Plan impossibly expensive. In any case, the BCV Plan should not be adopted without more information. The BCV also faces potentially serious pollution issues, from its former uses as a landfill, for petroleum processing, PCB-containing electrical equipment storage, and other polluting uses.
Studies find widespread contamination, but there are no accurate estimates of clean-up costs.
The BCV Plan should not be approved without a clear understanding of potential cost. The BCV Plan contains no workable sequence of events, despite the many government and private actors involved. Without a realistic sequence, the BCV Plan may lead to wasted resources, unrealistic expectations, and neighborhoods left in limbo for years or decades. The BCV Plan ignores geographic reality and area history in an attempt to create a planned neighborhood. It will most likely continue to be a barrier between north and south Minneapolis.