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Lafitte Greenway Park in New Orleans
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:35 pm
Perhaps the most underrated project in New Orleans right now. Obviously, the city is booming, and there are a ton of great projects.
Much like the High Line in Nyc, this linear park makes huge areas of mid city and Treme more livable. It cuts a green line right into the heart of the city. With hospitals about to open, whole foods opening blocks away and tons of young people buying homes there, I think this project could be huge in the long term.
Lafitte Greenway
Much like the High Line in Nyc, this linear park makes huge areas of mid city and Treme more livable. It cuts a green line right into the heart of the city. With hospitals about to open, whole foods opening blocks away and tons of young people buying homes there, I think this project could be huge in the long term.
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Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:39 pm to Tiger Attorney
This sounds really cool. Can you tell me more about it than just what's in the link?
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:39 pm to Tiger Attorney
Had a segment on the news last night. Really cool project that will tie a bunch of neighborhoods together. Glad to see this.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:40 pm to Tiger Attorney
I heard about this project on the news a few weeks ago. With the new hospital and surrounding renovations, this project is just another good step.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:41 pm to kingbob
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:41 pm to Tiger Attorney
Its a great project. I am just rather dubious. I feel like it will be rundown within 3 years.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:42 pm to TypoKnig
It's amazing to think about how much better New Orleans is going to be 10 years removed from Katrina than it was beforehand. Heck, with everything going on and in the works in Baton ROuge, it will be very interesting to see how much better BR is in 5-10 years compared to before Katrina.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:42 pm to Fun Bunch
It will include a skatepark 
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:44 pm to kingbob
Basically it was an old rail line that is now just weeds and drug needles. The area around most of it is already booming due in part to the hospitals and new orleans just booming right now.
The park would connect with new trails built along bayou st. John...thus one could bike from the lake all the way to the quarter.
It will dead end by the new rampart/St Claude streetcar line which will connect marigny/by water to downtown.
This will be new orleans' High Line Park...which Imo is the single greatest urban renewal project in the last 20 years.
The park would connect with new trails built along bayou st. John...thus one could bike from the lake all the way to the quarter.
It will dead end by the new rampart/St Claude streetcar line which will connect marigny/by water to downtown.
This will be new orleans' High Line Park...which Imo is the single greatest urban renewal project in the last 20 years.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:47 pm to Fun Bunch
This is a new new orleans...have faith. I promise you that the young hipsters will take over this park. The rate of growth in this city is equivalent to Houston in the oil boom years.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:48 pm to kingbob
Yep...and there is about to be another major jobs announcement for the city.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:50 pm to Tiger Attorney
Yea they did the rails to trails thing on the northshore and it has turned out great, but I hope the NO peeps wont ruin it.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:50 pm to Tiger Attorney
Man, seeing stuff like this really makes me want to live down there and start my career there. Too bad my SO hates New Orleans 
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:51 pm to Tiger Attorney
Actually I am not sure if there will be a skatepark in there anymore. The city may have focused its donations on the Parasite park under 610 near Paris and Pleasure intersection.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:51 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
I have been meaning to get out to that new park in the Bywater. shite looks gnarly
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:53 pm to kingbob
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my SO hates New Orleans
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:56 pm to kingbob
Start bringing her to places like uptown or bywater without forcing the issue she will start to change her mind. The city is bursting at the seems with stuff to do and major developments
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:58 pm to Tiger Attorney
I have been for years. She's from Baton Rouge and her family's from Lafayette. She can't help it, it's how she was raised.
Also, she's allergic to seafood so she doesn't like most "New Orleans" food and creole jambalaya is something she wouldn't feed to her dog (I'll eat it, but I certainly don't prefer it and would never cook it and call it jambalaya).
It's so silly, she talks about how dangerous New Orleans is and how it's not safe and she lives in Baton Rouge like 2 or 3 blocks off of Florida Blvd
Also, she's allergic to seafood so she doesn't like most "New Orleans" food and creole jambalaya is something she wouldn't feed to her dog (I'll eat it, but I certainly don't prefer it and would never cook it and call it jambalaya).
It's so silly, she talks about how dangerous New Orleans is and how it's not safe and she lives in Baton Rouge like 2 or 3 blocks off of Florida Blvd
This post was edited on 3/20/14 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 3/20/14 at 2:00 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
quote:
Actually I am not sure if there will be a skatepark in there anymore. The city may have focused its donations on the Parasite park under 610 near Paris and Pleasure intersection.
No skate park in this initial Lafitte Greenway work. There is space set aside, but we basically had enough money to pave a path, plant some meadows, and add a few baseball backstops. And you are correct about Parisite. USGBC and Tulane have some money going towards building up Parisite. Looking at the plans as I type.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 2:01 pm to BottomlandBrew
The city really fricked us concerning the Red Bull ramps. That was fricking bullshite 
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