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Tag: Lake Terrace Shopping Center

Two years after city funds Lake Terrace, owner behind on taxes

by Karen GadboisJanuary 17, 2013November 7, 2019

In a press release issued last week, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration prided itself on a recent decision by Judge Lloyd J. Medley Jr. to uphold fines imposed on a taxpayer financed developer who has failed to bring a lakefront strip mall back into commerce years after Katrina damaged it. The city lauded the ruling as […]

Decrepit strip mall financed by taxpayer money avoids wrecking ball — for now

by Karen GadboisMarch 18, 2010November 7, 2019

Strip mall that won taxpayer money faces code problems

by Karen GadboisMarch 5, 2010November 7, 2019

"Economic development" grants leave empty storefronts

by Karen GadboisJanuary 19, 2010November 7, 2019

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