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The History Of Poydras Street Development

December 8, 2015 • Central Business District • 10563

Richard Campanella, the historian and geographer with the Tulane School of Architecture, just published an article in nola.com that does a great job outlining the history of Poydras Street and the decisions that drove its development into New Orleans’ high rise center. City planners and residents wanted the street widened in the 1950s and 60s to make more [&hellip
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Check Out The Renderings For This Bywater Luxury Condo Project Next To Crescent Park

December 4, 2015 • Bywater, Development, Multi Family • 10772

A developer has filed plans with the city to construct a 4 story building with 12 residential units on floors two through four, and a 1550 square foot ground floor commercial space. The new construction is in a great location at 3220 Chartres Street, immediately adjacent to the Crescent Park bridge in the Bywater. According to [&hellip
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Another Downtown Hotel Trades: Hotel 504 on Canal Street Sells for $20 Million

December 3, 2015 • Acquisitions, Hotel & Hospitality • 8449

The InSite Group, a real estate investment firm based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has purchased the recently rebranded Hotel 504 at 1300 Canal St for $20 million. The 157 key hotel had been the Clarion Inn & Suites since 1997, when the seller, Kahn Properties, Inc. of Metairie, purchased it from Tulane for 1.1 million. The transaction was part [&hellip
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Deep South Studios’ $64 Million Movie Studio Secures Final Approval

December 2, 2015 • News • 5549

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 • 6164

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 • 11497

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 • 20250

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 • 16115

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 • 7563

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 • 7742

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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