Since Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the soaring Art Deco masterpiece, it seems like everyone and her uncle has come forward with a plan for the adaptive reuse of Charity Hospital. And yet eight years later it stands empty. The Lens is soliciting the views of our readers and city leaders.
Disbursements from the city's Economic Development Fund to Lake Terrace have totaled $225,000.
He'll take questions from Lens readers at noon Thursday.
Iberville as a safe, mixed-income mixed-income neighborhood. A new neuroscience research center at the old Charity Hospital, along with City Hall and Civil District Court. And a new mall on Canal Street to rival Lakeside. The missing piece? Money.
A success story — for a change — from the city's snake-bitten program to preserve houses from the bio-medical center footprint by trucking them to different neighborhoods.
New Orleans native C.W. Cannon savors his right to carry a drink into the streets, but wonders if the go-cup kerfuffle wasn't a tad overblown.
It took six years for Kimberly James to get Road Home money to rehab her Upper 9th Ward home. This summer, she thought she was months away from inhabiting it. But in July, she learned that the city had demolished the house, concluding that not enough progress had been made in rehabbing it. She says no one told her the house had been targeted for demolition.
The good news: A national coalition is tackling the flood insurance crisis, and Congress appears to be responding.
Baltimore's experience with the Inner Harbor redevelopment is a cause for concern in New Orleans.
The proposed remedy, fake grass, was as unwelcome as the original offense. The Zoning Board of Adjustment required that the owner jackhammer the cement parking pad.
