By Karen Gadbois, The Lens staff writer | Tulane on Tuesday dumped a frat house into the dustbin of Greek history to make way for a new campus police station. A wrecking crew made quick work of the former Pi Kappa Alpha house at 1036 Broadway, catty corner to The Boot, a popular campus watering […]
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Rock 'n' Bowl owner gets permission to demolish pair of houses for parking lots
By Karen Gadbois, The Lens staff writer | Rock ‘n’ Bowl owner John Blancher won city approval this week to tear down two apartment duplexes adjacent to the New Orleans bowling alley and night club, with plans to use the space for parking. Six New Orleans City Council members voted unanimously to overrule the Neighborhood […]
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Iberville developer eyes Lafitte Greenway linear park for obligatory off-site housing
By Ariella Cohen, The Lens staff writer | The Landrieu administration is considering a request to build affordable housing on a parcel of fallow city-owned land long expected to be part of the Lafitte Greenway in Mid-City. The land in question is the largest contiguous piece of land within the footprint of the linear park, […]
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Prior owner of 1 demolished "Treme" house says city seized double he was trying to fix
By Ariella Cohen, The Lens staff writer | Standing in front of a row of abandoned, soon-to-be-razed double shotguns, , gesturing sympathetically to the neighborhood leaders gathered with him, Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Thursday implored New Orleans property owners to end the pattern of neglect that has left tens of thousands blighted buildings across the […]
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If city had asked, "Treme" producers would have chipped in on restoration of doubles
By Ariella Cohen, The Lens staff writer | Neither the Landrieu administration nor preservationists followed up to save houses featured in ads for the HBO television show “Treme,” series executive producer David Simon wrote in a letter released this afternoon. The five houses that grace the cover of the recently released first-season DVD set were […]
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Planners OK erasure of Mid-City street grid to create gigantic med-center 'super block'
By Karen Gadbois, The Lens staff writer | Disappointing preservationists, the New Orleans Planning Commission on Tuesday recommended further collapsing a Mid-City neighborhood’s traditional street grid to create a giant “super block” for the long-stalled LSU medical complex that is to replace Charity Hospital. The 10-block tract stands beside a 12-block area already stripped of […]
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City Council hops aboard plan to extend streetcar service to Bywater's far edge
By Ariella Cohen, The Lens staff writer | The City Council is throwing its weight behind Bywater residents and businesses calling on the Regional Transit Authority to expand streetcar service to the neighborhood’s Poland Avenue eastern boundary. The council today approved a resolution requesting that the agency extend a planned French Quarter line another mile beyond […]
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City brings in only a portion of what the market demands for sought-after lakefront boathouses
How much would you pay to lease a prime lakefront boathouse at the city’s yacht harbor? How about $200 a month?
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'Reinventing' New Orleans? Landrieu team steers dwindling recovery dollars to humdrum projects
Despite Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s lofty rhetoric about reinventing the New Orleans, most discretionary federal grant money is going toward rebuilding streets and buildings.
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Animal House where pledges were scalded is targeted by Tulane for cop substation
1036 Broadway By Karen Gadbois, The Lens staff writer | Tulane wants to build a police substation in place of a frat house that was closed after pledges were scalded with boiling water and crab boil in an ugly 2009 hazing incident. The case for demolishing the former Pi Kappa Alpha residence, at 1036 Broadway, […]