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Demo Permit Filed For $120 Million, 21 Story Hotel at 400 Canal Street

March 4, 2014 • Central Business District, Development, Hotel & Hospitality • 5752

Boy that was fast. Wischermann Partners, Inc. and Jayshree Hospitality LLC, the developers of the proposed 21-story, 373-room hotels at the corner of Canal and Tchoupitoulas streets have filed a demolition permit for several properties to get the construction underway after just announcing the project three weeks ago. The project filed the demolition permit on [&hellip
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The Wild Life Reserve To Open Downtown Flagship Store

March 4, 2014 • Central Business District, News, Retail • 5991

The Wild Life Reserve, a men’s clothing brand, will be opening a new flagship store in downtown New Orleans at 111 St. Charles Avenue. The store will feature men’s and women’s clothing from The Wild Life Reserve collection as well as a finely curated collection of local and international designers and heritage brands. Entrepreneur Micaiah [&hellip
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Retail Watch: Dick’s Sporting Goods opens in Slidell

March 3, 2014 • Northshore, Retail, Slidell • 6754

Dick’s Sporting Goods opened Sunday (3/2) in Slidell at the Fremaux Town Center. The opening marks the chain’s seventh store in Louisiana and its 561st nationwide. The new store will offer over 40 in-store services performed by DICK’S certified PROS in sports and outdoor specialties such as golf, bike, fishing and team sports. The store [&hellip
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Hotels Tax Themselves To Boost New Orleans’ Tourism Advertising

March 3, 2014 • Hotel & Hospitality • 4897

New Orleans hotels will begin assessing an additional 1.75 percent tax on room rates in April to help pay for tourism marketing efforts worldwide and infrastructure improvements in the French Quarter. The additional cash is estimated to double the amount spent on advertising the city to vacationers. Nola.com reports that the tourism industry accounts for [&hellip
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Jaeger Buys Whitney Wyndham Hotel for $10.5 Million

February 28, 2014 • Acquisitions, Central Business District, Hotel & Hospitality • 12021

Joe Jaeger, the New Orleans hotelier, investor and real estate developer, has purchased the Whitney Wyndham Hotel at 610 Poydras St. for $10.5 million. The Whitney Wyndham Hotel is an eight-story, 93-room hotel, owned by a partnership controlled by Metairie business owner Robert Weinmann and Wood Design + Build chief executive Paul Flower. The partnership [&hellip
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140+ New NORA Properties To Be Auctioned March 29

February 27, 2014 • Community Development, News, Public Development • 5121

We reported a few weeks back that more NORA properties would soon hit the auction block. NORA finally announced which properties will be auctioned March 29, 2014 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Properties include single family homes, doubles and vacant lots. The properties are located in the New Orleans East, Holy Cross, [&hellip
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New Warehouse District Headquarters of International Shipholding Corp. Revealed!

February 27, 2014 • Acquisitions, Development, Office, Warehouse District • 8190

A few weeks back, International Shipholding Corp., which owns and operates a global fleet of waterborne cargo vessels, announced that they were relocating their corporate headquarters from Mobile, Ala., back to New Orleans. At the time, the company said that they had a warehouse district property under contract which would eventually be its new headquarters. [&hellip
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$24 Million Faubourg Lafitte Selects Gibbs Construction as GC

February 26, 2014 • Mid-City, Multi Family, Public Development, Public Finance • 5562

The third phase of the Faubourg Lafitte housing project redevelopment is moving forward, with developers working with Gibbs Construction as the lone bidder on the project, with a submitted bid of $17 million. This phase of the project, which includes 100 units in a nearly 100,000 sf apartment building for low-income seniors, has a budget [&hellip
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Finally! Construction Company Selected For Lafitte Greenway

February 26, 2014 • Construction, Mid-City, News, Parks & Public Spaces, Public Development, Zoning and Land Use • 8804

The city has selected a contractor to oversee the construction of the Lafitte Greenway, 2.6-mile multi-use trail, bike path, and linear park connecting the French Quarter to Bayou St. John and Mid-City, the Friends of Lafitte Corridor announced Tuesday. The City received five bids from general contractors ranging in amounts from $5.5M to $7.9M, a [&hellip
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New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Breaks Ground on $8 Million Headquarters

February 25, 2014 • Central City, Construction, News, Public Finance • 7634

The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra broke ground this morning on the site for its future $8 million New Orleans Jazz Market in Central City. The Jazz resource and community center will occupy the former Gators retails location at 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, the corner of Oretha Castle Haley and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards. The [&hellip
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