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In the Zone: Lafitte and Broad
This in-depth July 17 WWL-TV video clip presents a vision shared by the City and her citizens for the Lafitte Greenway.
Jul 21 2008
Video of Lafitte Greenway
The Times-Picayune has posted a video slideshow of the 2008 Lafitte Greenway Awareness Hike
Jun 28 2008
News
145 Historic Mid-City Buildings Slated for Demolition
The dust had not even settled from the demolition of 4,500 historic public housing units in New Orleans this past spring when the next major federally-funded demolition project began gathering steam and generating both questions and controversy. Read more >
Dec 3 2008 | 3 Replies
Energy Efficiency, Affordability Within Reach
The cost of energy, rising for years, has been one of the more vexing issues for New Orleans residents and businesses since Katrina. Entergy New Orleans has just announced that natural gas prices are set to spike once again this summer. These costs will be passed on to us in the form of higher bills, through a fuel adjustment charge for metered electricity use and metered gas. In the face of this daunting situation, we are not powerless. Read more >
Jun 23 2008
News Roundup
- Access Barred to LSU Hospital Tour
Dec 2 2008 | New Orleans CityBusiness - A New Chapter
Dec 1 2008 | New Orleans CityBusiness - Group Urges LSU, VA to Reconsider Mid-City Site
Nov 25 2008 | New Orleans City Business - Plans for New LSU-VA Hospital Campus Expected to Come this Week
Nov 23 2008 | The Times-Picayune - Urban Growers Go High-Tech to Feed City Diners
Nov 21 2008 | MSNBC
Projects
Greenway Businesses
What does a healthy business environment have to do with a healthy environment? Everything, if you ask Mike Massey, native New Orleanian and local business owner of Massey's Professional Outfitters.
Heritage Tourism in Mid-City
Preliminary findings from the research and analysis of the MidCity neighborhood conducted by the faculty and students of the Urban Planning + Design program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Stay Local!
A project of The Urban Conservancy, Stay Local! is a city-wide initiative for creating a strong economy based on locally owned and operated business. Stay Local! encourages consumers to shop locally while helping independent businesses compete more effectively.
Lafitte Greenway
Referred to by many names--the Lafitte Corridor, the Lafitte Greenway, the Old Carondelet Basin, the Carondelet Walk, etc.--this strip of land connecting the French Quarter with Bayou St. John and Lake Pontchartrain has a long history of linking various neighborhoods and could once again serve the city as an inviting and uniting public park.
