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Posted inSquandered Heritage Vintage

Demo of the Day

Over the last few weeks the “slippery eel”:http://www.cityofno.com/ has been hard at work demolishing properties that for some reason have escaped HCDRC review. Here is the demo of the day in MidCity. While the residents of the City have encouraged active reinvestment in the City, the City itself has encouraged, promoted and provided the means […]

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Lockett School

I wrote an “earlier post”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2007/11/30/the-recovery-school-district/ about a trip to Lockett School. Here is a letter from one of the members of the “Bunny Friend”:http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-09-07/blake.html Neighborhood Association. Dear Councilwoman Hedge-Morrell, I am writing to you on behalf of Johnson C. Lockett Elementary School, the elementary school I and my sisters and brothers and my entire neighborhood […]

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HCDRC Agenda

Housing Conservation District Review Committee December 10, 2007 10 AM Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall NEW BUSINESS “2500 Danneel St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2500.Danneel.Street – Demolition of a corner building by Jericho Road for the construction of a single family home. “2427 Republic St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2427.Republic.Street Demolition of a bracketed double shotgun. The adjacent neighbor intends to buy the property […]

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Lisa Mazique

A report from “Miami”:http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2006-09-14/news/blight-fight/. Here is a link to an old letter in the “Miami”:http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2006-10-05/news/letters-from-the-issue-of-october-5-2006/ newspaper. This comment was left on my blog by “Chuck D’Aprix”:http://blog.economicdevelopmentvision.com/ Not all of you may remember the sad pathetic case of “Lisa Mazique”:http://squanderedheritage.com/2006/10/13/lisa-mazique-and-the-clio-street-nightmare/, our former Department Head at NORA. After she left New Orleans she got another job in […]

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5428 St.Charles

Here is a link to a “T.P.”:http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-25/119459062488640.xml&coll=1 report about last nights public meeting. Here is a photo of the “Carriage”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/1425541896/ house that was mentioned. Towards the end of the meeting a question was directed at Mr. Goldring, we were told that he had left to go to dinner, at which point I decided it was […]