Canal Street Beat | New Orleans Real Estate News

A Solution For Affordable Housing in Downtown New Orleans?

November 18, 2015 • Central Business District, Multi Family • 19471

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 • 15743

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 • 7355

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 • 7544

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 • 8377

“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 • 4796

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 • 7980

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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Latter & Blum Continues Acquisition Spree; Acquires Houston Firm & Doubles In Size

November 5, 2015 • Acquisitions • 5239

The Latter & Blum, Inc. acquisition spree continued this week with the acquisition of Houston-based Realty Associates, which has more than 1,700 agents in the greater Houston metro area. The acquisition more than doubles the size of the firm to 3,200 agents with expected revenues of $4.5 billion. Latter & Blum has been on a tear [&hellip
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New Retail Redevelopment Features Green Wall, 18,000 SF of Space

November 4, 2015 • Development, Retail, West Bank • 8559

The redevelopment of a west bank shopping center at 2102 Franklin Ave, Gretna, LA 70053 will feature multiple green walls, which perhaps might be the first of its kind on the West Bank. Developer Josh Bruno purchased the building several years ago and has plans to redevelop it into West Centro, a new retail development featuring two [&hellip
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Check Out This Real Estate Development Bike Tour of The Bywater & Marigny

November 3, 2015 • Bywater • 5595

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is hosting bike tour in Bywater and Marigny of the latest and greatest real estate developments and proposed projects. The tour will include stops at St. Roch Market, The McDonogh 16 Development (1815 St. Claude Avenue/CCNO Developers), St. Claude Streetcar Stop (Dan Favre speaking), Sean Cummings’ Press Street Project Via Latrobe, [&hellip
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