“Here is the entire article”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=30008 Thirty-four schools “Abrams”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604076260229/, “Alexander”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/saraheliselewis/sets/72157604095659076/, “Bienville”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/saraheliselewis/sets/72157604095854796/, “Bradley”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/saraheliselewis/sets/72157604096020626/, “Coghill”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604146019093/, “Gordon”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/saraheliselewis/sets/72157604096337060/, “Jordan”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604076051639/, “Little Woods”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604052454594/, “Osborne”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604071790706/, “Sherwood Forest”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604067490365/, “Arthur Ashe”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/saraheliselewis/sets/72157603992291070/, Lafon, “LaSalle,”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604122059973/ Fisk-Howard, Hoffman, “Hynes”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/sets/72157604125099819/, “Morris F.X. Jeff”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/sets/72157604104775814/, “Terrell”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/saraheliselewis/sets/72157604105434321/, “Wheatley,”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604122519177/ “Wilson”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604076060333/, “Edison”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604096792682/, “Edwards,”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604110556330/ “Haley”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604146106109/, “Hardin”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604103946971/, “Lockett”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/sets/72157603341154141/, “Morial”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604076037451/, “Moton”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604140756576/, Tubman, “Hansberry”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/liprap/sets/72157604096923476/, Langston Hughes, “Shaw”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/sets/72157604100085069/, Waters, “Chester”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/saraheliselewis/sets/72157604101073650/ and “Dunbar”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/saraheliselewis/sets/72157604105393209/ Elementary Schools – have all been slated […]
Save a School Save a Neighborhood
UPDATE The group interested in advocating for the renovation & re-opening of Morris F.X. Jeff School as an EXCELLENT community-supported , universal-access public school will be meeting again this Saturday, March 15th, 2:00 p.m. at Bibleway Church (Orleans & N. Rendon). Updates @ 2:00 pm; canvassing training @2:30 pm; canvassing in surrounding neighborhood @ 3:00 […]
HCDRC March 17th
This meeting will be held in City Council Chambers at 2pm “710 Race St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/710.Race.Street – APPROVE “714 Race St .”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/714.Race.Street -DENIED “1501 St. Thomas St .”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/1501.Saint.Thomas.Street – DENIED “1818 Toledano St .”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/1818.Toledano.Street – APPROVED “1220 Calhoun St .”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/1220.Calhoun.Street – APPROVED City Initiated VOL 301 DIANA St. – APPROVED VOL “6432-34 N. GALVEZ St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/6432.North.Galvez.Street – WITHDRAWN […]
Demolition
According to the consent decree ANY owner who would like to have their home taken off the demolition has the right to appeal. This homeowner sent a certified letter to the City and was assured that his home was not in danger of being demolished. He had left a number of comments on this site […]
HCDRC March 10
City Hall 7th Floor Safety and Permits “3516-18 Lasalle St. “:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/3516-18.LaSalle.Street – DENIED “3615 Jena St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/3615.Jena.Street – APPROVED “6110 N. Roman St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/6011.North.Roman.Street – APPROVED “2655-57 N. Rocheblave”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2655.North.Rocheblave.Street – APPROVED “5435-37 N. Roman St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/5435.North.Roman.Street – APPROVED “320 S. Olympia”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/320.South.+Olympia.Street – APPROVED “917 Gordon St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/917.Gordon.Street – APPROVED “2513-15 S.Galvez St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2513.South.Galvez.Street – application by Habitat for Humanity – […]
Beware The Ides of Tax Sales
Since we have been so closely involved in the “Demolition issues”:http://thinknola.com/post/hard-charging-can-do-incompetence/ we have been wondering since the recent Tax Sale if the City was cross checking information about the properties sold and the Demolition list. I had been told by Safety and Permits that they had cross checked. Considering that FEMA was not paying to […]
Antonine St
The owners of a Hotel on St. Charles want to demolish this bldg. for a Parking Lot. There are already a number of surface parking lots in this area close to St. Charles. This will be heard at City Council on Thursday March 6 at 10 am
The RSD,Parsons Corp and Concordia
“Strange”:http://www.doe.state.la.us/lde/comm/pressrelease.aspx?PR=888 “Bedfellows”:http://www.sfmpop.org/home/ Looks like they want to demolish this one… “according to City Business”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=30008 “links”:http://g-bitch.com/?p=439 “and more links”:http://wecouldbefamous.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-grade-rsds-homework-part-3.html and “another link”:http://g-bitch.com/?p=438 Also “Mid City is pissed about “Moris F.X. Jeff”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/uptotheminute.cfm?recid=15880 and last but not least a link to one of the Contractors on the “Master Plan”:http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/29/africa/rebuild.php Shock and Awe anyone? The report serves as the […]
HCDRC Agenda Feb 25th
The Housing Conservation District Review Committee of the City of New Orleans will hold its meeting on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 10:00 am at 1300 Perdido Street, City Hall in Safety & Permits Department on the 7th floor, Room 7E07. This meeting is to review the following demolition applications submitted to the Department of […]
HCDRC Appeal by the Sanitation Department
For some reason this City appears to be bound and determined to bulldoze houses. At the HCDRC hearing on Jan 14th we “protested the decision”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/panel_denies_29_demolition_req.html to demolish 29 of the 91 demolitions proposed. Now the Sanitation Department in concert with Dr.Edward Blakley is appealing those denials to City Council. Our arguments were based on Structural […]
