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Here is a link to a story about “DRC”:http://www.drcusa.com/ our demolition contractor. The contractors who have made the process drag on forever. Here is a snippet of an “article about the fun”:http://www.click2houston.com/investigates/17712771/detail.html they are having in Texas Another worker playfully balanced on the hood of his truck, emulating a surfer. Two other workers were captured […]

This house was demolished today in spite of the promises of the administration to review all apllications issued under the Executive Order. There was this and now this

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 […]

A reader pointed out this bit of “lost history”:http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/03/JA/DR/.dr19.html Set forth below is a list of all the known residences of Lee Harvey Oswald disclosed and verified through the investigation of his background: 2109 Alvar Street New Orleans, Louisiana October 18, 1939 – Spring 1940 This first appeared on an agenda in 2007. Most likely […]

Voice of the “Wetlands Music Festival”:http://www.voiceofthewetlands.com/mainpage%201.html this weekend Cause it matters

We took another quick trip down to Dulac last week. We also went out to the Isle de Jean Charles. Before we went down to the Isle we stopped by the Old Store to see Brenda Dardar Robicheaux..here is an excerpt from her blog. On a recent trip to Isle de Jean Charles, I noticed […]

This weeks loser is a corner store on New Orleans Street approved for demolition today along with about 100 other houses. to see the full set “click here”:http://flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/sets/72157607804935330/

Within our city, we have brains on board to make the demolition process more user friendly and culturally sensitive. It falls upon the Nagin administration and our City Council to make this happen. Why we can’t arrive at that destination is indicative of the laissez faire mindset that created the problem in the first place. […]

Over the past 2 years we have faced a tidal wave of demolition. The ongoing issue of demolition and neighborhood preservation is “still very much operating in crisis mode.”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/council_puzzles_over_raze_proc.html Many urban centers across the United States face these same issues without a flood to blame it on. The scrappers that inflict damage on our City […]

After much back and forth we were promised that all Demolition permits issued under the Executive Order would receive the review that we have been asking for. We will be keeping an eye on this.