Mismanagment

2683 New Orleans

I have been trying to figure out who owns “this property”:http://flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/sets/72157607804935330/ It is an irreplaceable corner store, and I thought perhaps if the owner did not care that it was demolished they may want to sell it.

And that is where the City database becomes an incomprehensible mess. The owner information is incorrect. It seems to be owned by an individual but looking closer it seems that it may be owned by “NORA”:http://www.noraworks.org/

This property should be flagged and investigated.

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Karen Gadbois

Karen Gadbois co-founded The Lens. She now covers New Orleans government issues and writes about land use. With television reporter Lee Zurik she exposed widespread misuse of city recovery funds and led to guilty pleas in federal court. Her work attracted some of journalism's highest honors, including a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and a gold medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. She can be reached at (504) 606-6013.