Consortium puts politicos in developer role
Members of the New Orleans City Council sit on boards that are part of a consortium that has offered a proposal to tear down the World Trade Center and expand the Morial Convention Center. This means,...
View ArticleJindal hits, spares NOLA tourism with veto power
Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law one controversial bill related to New Orleans tourism and vetoed another.
View ArticleDevelopers jockey for position ahead of WTC site meeting
Competition is heating up among the three groups vying to redevelop the former World Trade Center building on the downtown riverfront. All three released statements over the past week in advance of...
View ArticleBGR notes lean details in WTC site proposals
Officials informed the Bureau for Governmental Research, a nonprofit government watchdog organization, that the city has not initiated an appraisal of the World Trade Center property in more than five...
View ArticlePanel refines process for considering WTC proposals
A meeting agenda said the committee would discuss, evaluate and select a proposal for the site of the vacant 33-story tower at the foot of Canal Street. Instead, committee members listened to 25...
View ArticlePanel hears pitches for WTC
New Orleans officials face a dilemma over what to do with an empty riverfront office building: let private developers preserve and transform it into hotel and apartment space or knock it down to create...
View ArticleOpinion: City needs to sell 2 Canal St.
It’s high time for the city to remove this 33-story burden from its real estate portfolio and end its fruitless quest for a long-term lessee who will foot the bill for upgrades to a property it doesn’t...
View ArticleConsortium puts politicos in developer role
Members of the New Orleans City Council sit on boards that are part of a consortium that has offered a proposal to tear down the World Trade Center and expand the Morial Convention Center. This means,...
View ArticleJindal hits, spares NOLA tourism with veto power
Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law one controversial bill related to New Orleans tourism and vetoed another.
View ArticleDevelopers jockey for position ahead of WTC site meeting
Competition is heating up among the three groups vying to redevelop the former World Trade Center building on the downtown riverfront. All three released statements over the past week in advance of...
View ArticleBGR notes lean details in WTC site proposals
Officials informed the Bureau for Governmental Research, a nonprofit government watchdog organization, that the city has not initiated an appraisal of the World Trade Center property in more than five...
View ArticlePanel refines process for considering WTC proposals
A meeting agenda said the committee would discuss, evaluate and select a proposal for the site of the vacant 33-story tower at the foot of Canal Street. Instead, committee members listened to 25...
View ArticlePanel hears pitches for WTC
New Orleans officials face a dilemma over what to do with an empty riverfront office building: let private developers preserve and transform it into hotel and apartment space or knock it down to create...
View ArticleOpinion: City needs to sell 2 Canal St.
It’s high time for the city to remove this 33-story burden from its real estate portfolio and end its fruitless quest for a long-term lessee who will foot the bill for upgrades to a property it doesn’t...
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