Any News on the Government St. Beer Garden?

I asked about it when I was at Radio Bar a month or so ago. They’re still working on it. The draggy-arse EBR permitting process is holding it up.

I know they got held up because they lost cash flow when Chelsea’s was forced to close. Then the flood happened and it jacked up all the building costs

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I know they got held up because they lost cash flow when Chelsea’s was forced to close.

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Forced?

Friends with a couple that live a couple houses away and yes they are. Biggest complaint I've heard is the limited parking which will inevitably force people to park along their Street and will no doubt end up in their yards

The draggy-arse EBR permitting process is holding it up. Correct.



16 weeks and counting.

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it'll keep being an empty lot for the dregs to leave needles and pipes.

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I see this play out from time to time in Nola and I really hope that this happens. They would rather a run down crack house than something good being put into commerce.

Forced may have been the wrong word. But the Chelsea’s landlord was a dick who kept on raising the rent and wouldn’t make repairs to the building. So they packed it in.

I think a lot of the neighbors are pro-beer garden. A few years ago, I went to a public hearing at the church near the site and everyone there was for it. There were some “Won’t someone think of the children?” types that bitched in an Advocate article a few weeks before, but the neighbors who were there to ask questions were pro-beer Garden.