re: Lafitte Greenway Park in New Orleans

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How is the Market Street project in the warehouse district going? I haven't been by there in a few months.

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Going up next to my fiancee's office. Looks like its on its way with Phase I. Not sure when the completion date is expected. I'd have to google that.

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It's taking forever. They're already months behind schedule. Woodward is in the process of screwing the pooch on that one.

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Go figure. But would love to see those surface lots all disappear if, of course, that doesn't create its own little nightmare.

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I think the opposite. I think within 3 years it will be boomtown along the corridor. I'm admittedly biased as I've been involved with the project since 2008.

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you are the guy I have questions for. so in 8 years, what has happened other than spending a shite ton of money on studies and artists renderings and dumping a few piles of mud next to Rouses on carrollton?

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But would love to see those surface lots all disappear if, of course, that doesn't create its own little nightmare.

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Yeah I would definitely not love to see that happen, unless some honest to God parking garages go up to replace them

What will happen to the old Home Depot on Carrollton?

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Kind of like what happened to the area around Armstrong Park, quickly after it was built?

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To be fair, that park was between cemetaries, a large Project, and some old houses.

Now in that area, if you drive around you do see contruction going on, the houses are getting fixed up.

I do most of my work in rental units around the city. I'm seeing a lot of white people in places I've never seen them before.

The city is blending and that is helping with keeping neighborhoods up.

An old black guy in the lower nine told me he thought the whites coming into the area was a good thing, because they demand business and demand standards of business and make it happen.
It's really true too.
If you go through the hood you will see mostly cut rate cut corner places that people are almost forced to shop at due to proximity. But as you get into the better areas you get the places you look to seek out.
(of course there are also great places to eat in bad areas)

The real answer is the area around Armstrong park is beginning to gentrify. Rampart and St. Claude are getting a street car, so new business will come in, and with higher rents than now, meaning the quality of business will improve. The quality of life in the area will improve and more and more people will seek to move in.

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I assume the politicking for funds/a builder/etc took a lot of effort.

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yeah, probably so. i work a block away, and I have been waiting and waiting for progress. my hopes have been waning. hope it finally gets going soon

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There is some five or six story building downtown that to me is strange, because it's all framed in wood. Usually you see steel 2x4"s in commercial construction.

lol catch back up to where I was in the thread and people are talking about the wood building.

It just seems strange.

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Tax break for using sustainable materials. There's nothing more sustainable than wood, plus, wood is good for most any commercial project 5 stories or less.

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hope it finally gets going soon

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Link in OP says Five days it starts.

That Market building looks like it has garage parking in it. I imagine most if not all those buildings will?

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I took a few vacations with all that money. Put me behind schedule.

In all seriousness, there is a lot of work that goes into something like this. Property acquisition, lining up multiple funding sources, public review periods, and most importantly, political wrangling. Every politician and high-ranking public official in this administration and the previous administration has had their hands on this project. Really slows things down. Just the nature of a large public project like this.

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This. everyone needs their kickback and each design comes back with more ornamental stuff and higher quality finishes than the last one. This causes the price to balloon up and up, not to mention if eminent domain is involved. Basically, with these projects, the incentive to keep studying it is so great that they study it until all of the money's gone and then scuttle the project because it's now twice as expensive. Of course it's twice as expensive now, you spent 10 years studying it! You spent more money studying it than it would have cost to go ahead and build it in the first place!