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Housing Conservation District Review Committee Agenda 10 a.m. May 29, 2007 Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall 2342 Industry St. — Applicant City of New Orleans Housing Unit Demolition Task Force has applied for owner Mildred Stiaes to demolish this altered bungalow to be replaced with a vacant lot. This neighborhood is so isolated, my […]

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Agenda 10 a.m. May 29, 2007 Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall 1435 Elysian Fields Ave. — Applicant City of New Orleans Housing Unit Demolition Task Force has applied for owner Lawrence Raymond to demolish this altered Italianate single shotgun to be replaced with a single-family residence of no specific […]

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Agenda 10 a.m. May 29, 2007 Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall Owner Allen Toussaint has applied to demolish this single-family residence to be replaced with a single-family residence of no specific design or type (no redevelopment plans submitted with the application) .

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Agenda 10 a.m. May 29, 2007 Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall 2530 Myrtle St. — Applicant City of New Orleans Housing Unit Demolition Task Force has applied for owner Albert Vosbein III to demolish this altered bungalow to be replaced with a single-family residence of no specific design or […]

We have written about the imminent danger list before. The difficulty in tracking this list is that there are simply too many properties listed to maintain an effective overight. Today a friend called me and told me about this property This is imy friends route to work and she has watched this property thru 2 […]

Richard Nickel dedicated his life to photographing the buildings of reknowned Chicago architects Adler and Sullivan. He died while photographing the ruins of the Chicago Stock Exchange thirty-five years ago. As Karen and I, and now, also Randall do, Nickel chased the wrecking ball and often captured the last photographs of some of Chicago’s most […]

HDLC Historic District Landmarks Commission Meeting Agenda May 11th, 2007 City Council Chambers 9:30 a.m. City Hall RESULT: Approved Joseph Tolliver, owner, represented by the Housing Unit Demolition Task Force. Right now, we are in the vortex of the demolition process we could see coming 6 months ago. It could be an Imminent Danger declaration […]

We had written here earlier about Blight Bonds. A project that Ed Blakley was touting as a way to raise revenue. It appears now that it is off the “table”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-21/117877476868770.xml&coll=1&thispage=1 This is the follow up “article”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-7/117886750764080.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET RESULT: Deferred, Applicant Not Present Jules Ford, III, owner/applicant. Proposal for demolition with redevelopment plans.

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET St. Peter Claver Church, owner. Housing Unit Demolition Task Force, applicant. Proposal for demolition. Want to put in a credit union but no plans presented. RESULT: 30 day Layover This church had two other properties on previous HDLC agenda:1009 […]