Jesuit: Bringing Down the House{es}

In late 2006 Jesuit applied to demolish 3 houses on S Solomon and Banks. I wrote about those demolitions at the time. “link”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2006/09/03/426-28-ssolomon-street-mid-city/

4148 Banks St

And this one which they used as an office.

Banks Street

Eventually they were granted permission to demolish these homes but were told they needed to present a plan to create a parking lot and could not just throw down some gravel and park there.

Here we are 3 years later and this is the parking lot.

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So it comes as no surprise that they are applying to demolish 3 more properties in the same block.

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So carry on Jesuit…

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.