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Deep South Studios’ $64 Million Movie Studio Secures Final Approval

December 2, 2015 • News • 4821

The New Orleans City Council gave the final approval for $64 Million Deep South Studios movie studio on Tuesday (Dec 1.). The unanimous vote clears the path for the 254,000-square-foot facility that will be the biggest in the south. The project from developer Scott Niemeyer is envisioned as a 19 acre movie studio complex, complete with five sound [&hellip
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HDLC Shoots Down Latest Design For 96-Key Moxy Hotel on St. Charles

November 30, 2015 • Architecture & Design, Development, Hotel & Hospitality • 5181

Last week, the Historic District Landmarks Commission’s Architectural Review Committee shot down the newest proposal to build a new five-story Moxy hotel at 744 St. Charles Ave. . Husband and wife developers Barry and Lorraine Dinvaut are seeking to develop a 96-room Moxy Hotel, which would incorporate a 5 story new construction building along with a historic building built [&hellip
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Sean Cummings’ 260 Unit Via Latrobe Development Gets Final Approval (We’ve got Renderings)

November 23, 2015 • Bywater, Development, Multi Family, Zoning and Land Use • 10165

The New Orleans City Council last week (Nov. 19) unanimously approved Developer Sean Cumming’s Via Latrobe project, a Bywater development to convert several Bywater warehouses into a mixed-use project with 260 apartments. The City Council approvals follows the City Planning Commission approval just a few weeks earlier. In addition to the 260 apartments, the project will [&hellip
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A Solution For Affordable Housing in Downtown New Orleans?

November 18, 2015 • Central Business District, Multi Family • 16777

This is a guest post from Ray McNeal, a real estate, urban development, and environmental journalist. The lack of suitable, affordable housing is a crisis currently being experienced by several major U.S. cities, including New Orleans. As NOLA.com points out, occupancy rates for downtown New Orleans are in the 90th percentile, and an increase in [&hellip
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Lush Cosmetics Opening Two New Orleans Stores Simultaneously

November 17, 2015 • Commercial, French Quarter, Magazine Street • 14790

Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics is in the process of launching two new stores in New Orleans to round out the end of this year. The two openings will bring the total number of Lush stores to 236 across North America. Both the 1990 square foot store on Magazine Street (in the former Ah-ha boutique location [&hellip
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Warehouse District Building Proposes Fourth Floor Penthouse & Rooftop Deck

November 17, 2015 • Construction, Multi Family, Warehouse District • 6826

An architect representing the owners of a warehouse district building at 527 St. Joseph has applied to the HDLC to add a 4th floor penthouse to the existing 3 story structure. Diane Hickman with Mouton, Long & Turner Architects filed the application, and the penthouse looks great! Plans filed with the city call for adding an [&hellip
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$35 Million, 162-room Cambria Hotel Breaks Ground in Warehouse District

November 13, 2015 • Development, Hotel & Hospitality, Warehouse District • 6922

Developer Fillmore Hospitality held a ground breaking yesterday (Nov. 12) for the construciton of a new Cambria Hotel & Suites in the Warehouse District. Plans call for a $35 million, 65 foot, 162 room hotel with a contemporary bistro, a fitness center and 1,200 square feet of meeting space. The site is currently a parking lot. [&hellip
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Canal Street Ferry To Be Demolished; City Rendering Shows Conrad Hilton Rather Than Four Seasons

November 12, 2015 • Central Business District • 7779

“We are going to rebuild this foot of Canal Street,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a press conference last Thursday (Nov. 5, 2015). City leaders plan to tear down the Canal Street ferry terminal and replace it with a pedestrian landing on a floating barge, which will go a long way towards opening up the riverfront. This [&hellip
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$64 Million, 19 Acre Movie Studio Gets Go-Ahead From City

November 11, 2015 • Development, News, Sports & Specialty, West Bank, Zoning and Land Use • 4290

The City Planning Commission on Tuesday approved the proposed $63.5 million Deep South Studios movie complex in Algiers. The proposal now moves to the City Council for the final approval. The project from developer Scott Niemeyer is envisioned as a 19 acre movie studio complex, complete with five sound stages covering 104,000 square feet, 100,000 square feet of office [&hellip
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$25 Million Pythian Mixed-Use Development Set to Break Ground Next Week

November 9, 2015 • Central Business District, Development • 7242

Developers Green Coast Enterprises and Crescent City Community Land Trust received an $18.6 million building permit for the redevelopment of 234 Loyola Street on October 19. The project includes the an entire residential, retail, and commercial redevelopment of the nine-story, 107-year-old building. Financing for the project recently closed, and construction is set to begin next week. Green Coast [&hellip
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