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Author: Karen Gadbois

About Karen Gadbois
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 to guilty pleas in federal court. Her work attracted some of journalism's highest honors, including a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and a gold medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. She can be reached at (504) 606-6013.

Seven buildings would be demolished as CVS plan migrates to Elysian Fields at Claiborne

February 13, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
The previous plan, to put the pharmacy on St. Claude Avenue in Marigny, drew fierce neighborhood opposition.

City hearings this week include complaints on a tree house, and a pair of unbuilt sidewalks

February 10, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
The city's administrative hearings, in which owners appear to answer charges of improper zoning or permitting, will take a look at a Mid-City tree house (at left), and a nagging piece of blighted property near the St. Roch Market.

City agency can’t reach consensus, so corner-store demolition is denied

February 6, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Potential buyers don't get their hoped-for demolition permit for former corner store at Nashville Avenue and Patton Street.

Uptown residents say city is dragging feet on Newcomb Boulevard fence removal

February 4, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
The city now says the street must be converted to one-way before it is removed.

New owners look to demolish former corner store, build two new homes on Nashville

January 31, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Top aide in mayor’s office asked department heads to campaign for Landrieu

January 28, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
But no one was required to participate, a spokesman for Landrieu said.

LaToya Cantrell kills plans for Zion City batching plant

January 17, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Neighbors, already surrounded by industrial development, complained about truck traffic and environmental issues.

City employees solicit Landrieu endorsements from neighborhood leaders

January 16, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
A spokesman for the mayor says they were working on their own time.

Neighbors hope to get some relief after city tells doggy day-care center to muzzle noise

December 13, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
Belladoggie spa for dogs also must seek special permission from city agency after officials says the zoning is improper and has been "stretched to the absurd."

Three years after St. Roch property sold to favored buyer, it lies fallow

December 12, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
The owner of the gas station next door originally planned to tear down the building to build a convenience store.

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