Vanessa Gueringer, left, and Kim Ford discuss the Holy Cross project and the public-relations campaign supporting it. Credit: Karen Gadbois / The Lens

People living near the site of the abandoned Holy Cross school in the Lower 9th Ward know the site has to be redeveloped, but they are unhappy with a plan to build two, seven-story apartment buildings along the river.

Related: An in-depth look at the public-relations campaign behind the project

In this audio story, I talk with them about the character of their neighborhood and their reservations about the plan.

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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...

3 replies on “Audio: Holy Cross residents wary of proposed riverfront apartment complex”

  1. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Angela worked tirelessly for this city, put her entire life into this city, and you all are shooting her down because the buildings she wants to put in are too tall? That makes NO sense.

  2. And which group do YOU work for? “A cooking school!” Well golly gee!

    Railroading your way through a neighborhood, disregarding the current residents there…now THAT makes no sense.

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