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Citing New Orleans crime, Harvey Gulf moving headquarters to Jefferson Parish
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:02 am
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:02 am
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New Orleans-based offshore transportation company Harvey Gulf International Marine is moving its headquarters from the Central Business District to Metairie, shifting 100 jobs to Jefferson Parish in a move that owner Shane Guidry says was spurred by employee safety concerns.
The company, which is currently located in the Hancock Whitney Center on Poydras Street, will demolish the Texas Motel on Airline Drive near Severn Avenue and build a $5 million facility in its place.
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The move by Harvey Gulf, which has been in its current location since 2010, is the latest in a long line of shifts in the offshore oil and gas industry from downtown New Orleans, which could once boast of a cadre of oil majors and their suppliers with regional headquarters in the city.
Over the past two decades, Houston has pulled in many of those jobs and companies. ExxonMobil shifted its offshore operations to Houston in 2003. More recently, in 2018, offshore vessel operator Tidewater moved the remainder of its New Orleans employees to Houston after emerging from bankruptcy protection. That same year, the building at 701 Poydras where Harvey Gulf is located, which was long known as One Shell Square after its biggest tenant, Shell Oil, was renamed for Hancock Whitney Bank.
Guidry said he has had considered moving the company's headquarters to Jefferson Parish since an employee was attacked at the corner of Carondelet Street and Poydras Street in 2021 by men who tried to drag her into their car.
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“It’s time to protect my own people,” he said. “I know the numbers and I know how shifts work and I know New Orleans does not have the police force to properly police the city."
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 10:23 am
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Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:07 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
I used to lament the decline of New Orleans. Now I celebrate it.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:26 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
So he "has to protect his people." What a knee-jerk reaction, which may be a bit premature.
Jason Williams was just on WWL radio assuring one and all that he'll be able to do a better job if he can get more money from the Administration to hire more top prosecutors.
No word on why he can't keep his personnel numbers at other than a constantly declining rate.
Of course, "better" would have to be a conviction rate significantly north of 7% for the most violent felonies.
Jason Williams was just on WWL radio assuring one and all that he'll be able to do a better job if he can get more money from the Administration to hire more top prosecutors.
No word on why he can't keep his personnel numbers at other than a constantly declining rate.
Of course, "better" would have to be a conviction rate significantly north of 7% for the most violent felonies.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:36 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Wow.. Not only moving but constructing a building for offices... They must want to get out of in a big way.
If you want to piss me off, tell me I have to go downtown in New Orleans.
If you want to piss me off, tell me I have to go downtown in New Orleans.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:49 am to Athis
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They must want to get out of in a big way.
Downtown New Orleans is too dangerous.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:50 am to Athis
Now time to move jobs out of NOLA and into JP where it is somewhat safer.
And let the residents follow the commercial jobs.
And let the residents follow the commercial jobs.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:00 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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Texas Motel on Airline Drive near Severn Avenue and build a $5 million facility in its place
Because this location is so upscale.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:19 am to TheHarahanian
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Because this location is so upscale
I wouldn’t equate the soon to be demolished Texas Motel with a new construction office building.
Plus, this is just a straight shot for Shane from Northline down Airline. Good move on his part.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:22 am to jackamo3300
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Jason Williams was just on WWL radio assuring one and all that he'll be able to do a better job if he can get more money from the Administration to hire more top prosecutors.
Keep on believing this.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:26 am to Jyrdis
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Keep on believing this.
Nothing in the post even remotely hints at any of us over here believing it.
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In fact, the numbers we got this morning for the first 4 months of this year screams out just how critical is this situation, and how for all intents and purposes is hopeless.
For the first 4 months of this year, NOPD made 937 felony arrests, of those 423 of the most violent ones were accepted. Of that 423, 343 were "closed."
Closed, meaning those pled down to a lesser charge, or dismissed for whatever reason.
It all still results in a 7% conviction rate.
No matter how these figures are pushed, pulled, bent to serve a particular agenda, in cold, hard figures, this District Attorney's office is releasing back on to the street an army of dysfunctionals which will continue to keep all of us on our toes.
The specifics of the numbers are so jumbled and vague that Goyeneche still doesn't have the complete, accurate figures.
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 11:37 am
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:32 am to jackamo3300
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which may be a bit premature.
If, by 'premature', you mean a few decades late.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:35 am to jrobic4
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I used to lament the decline of New Orleans. Now I celebrate it.
I don't as much celebrate it as say what did you expect to happen.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:37 am to theOG
Is the new office building going to resemble Shane's house?
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:40 am to Smeg
Maybe you're one of the few on here whose sarcasm meter isn't in the shop.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:40 am to Tall Tiger
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Is the new office building going to resemble Shane's house?
The new office building is only $5M, so no.
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