There have been cycles in the destruction of St. Charles Avenue, and we may be on the brink of a new one. The city’s most famous boulevard was once largely residential almost all the way from Uptown to Lee Circle, though you wouldn’t know it from the proliferation of Burger Kings and Speedy Oil Change […]
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Council OK's St. Charles Avenue demolition
By Karen Gadbois, The Lens staff writer | A substantial group of Uptown property owners attended today’s City Council meeting to address a proposal to tear down an 80-year-old house on St. Charles Avenue. Jeffery Goldring was seeking permission to demolish a 1928 Emile Weil-designed triplex. The owner was seeking to tear down this house […]
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Demolition of St. Charles Avenue landmark denied — for now; Council appeal likely
The campaign to demolish the St. Charles Avenue triplex is not over. Photo by Karen Gadbois. By Karen Gadbois, The Lens staff writer | Well-heeled Uptowners turned out for Monday’s meeting of the Neighborhood Conservation District Committee, to speak both for and against a plan by liquor tycoon Jeffery Goldring to demolish a 1928 Emile […]