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 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...