Disbursements from the city’s Economic Development Fund to Lake Terrace have totaled $225,000.
Category: Land Use
Posted inLand Use
Live chat Thursday: Talk to Pres Kabacoff about downtown redevelopment
He’ll take questions from Lens readers at noon Thursday.
Posted inLand Use
Pres Kabacoff outlines $1 billion vision to redevelop New Orleans’ urban core
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.
Posted inLand Use, Squandered Heritage
A house moved to make way for the hospital complex finds new life in Mid City
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.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Identity politics: Gentry cling to go-cups while kids and roosters face extinction
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.
Posted inInvestigations, Land Use
Family’s long journey home after Katrina ends when city bulldozes house
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.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Soaring flood insurance rates threaten to wash away property values, tax base
The good news: A national coalition is tackling the flood insurance crisis, and Congress appears to be responding.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
‘Reinventing the Crescent’ reconsidered: mere gentrification or good for us all?
Baltimore’s experience with the Inner Harbor redevelopment is a cause for concern in New Orleans.
Posted inLand Use, Squandered Heritage
Compliance! Grass grows on a once paved yard
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.
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Live blog: RTA approves new fares for Algiers, Chalmette ferries
In response to public input, there will be packages that include bus and streetcar access.