NEW ORLEANS | Project/Development Thread - Page 260

tennis1400 · #**5181** Posted **Jul 17, 2012, 3:25 PM**

I think its hard to judge the garage from the rendering I put up. Im sure it will be nice enough and the retail will help with pedestrian activity. Hope it has a neat nighttime lighting scheme though.

NOLAforME · #**5182** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 5:24 AM**

I think we all have high hopes for South Market.

SlidellWx · #**5183** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 8:34 AM**

I can't glean anything from the b/w drawings on what the garage will look like. It's far to fuzzy and lacks any detail.

Also, the Spirit Airlines announcement is big. I could see additional service added to several markets down road...including some Central American and Carribean destinations. Spirit is a low cost airline, so it will be very successful here in NOLA with vacationers. If they start service to LAS...I'll be flying them instead of Southwest.

rcp11889 · #**5184** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 1:30 PM**

Yeah. Spirit airlines will be nice. Even having to transfer in dallas will make it a lot easier for me to travel!

Blitzen · #**5185** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 2:30 PM**

The City of New Orleans is currently advertising for a City Planner position. The application deadline is Friday, July 20th. If interested, visit www.nola.gov.

IceCream · #**5186** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 3:47 PM**

The foundation building going up:

The first stationary crane on the VA site (all the other ones are UMC so far)

UMC is starting on the 3rd floor!

ALSO, PLANS FOR THE GRAND PALACE'S IMPLOSION ON SUNDAY AT 8AM!?!?!?

rcp11889 · #**5187** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 4:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Blitzen

The City of New Orleans is currently advertising for a City Planner position. The application deadline is Friday, July 20th. If interested, visit www.nola.gov.

I'm about to start my masters in urban planning at UNO in the fall. Hopefully, I will see this posting again in a year or two!

Nolacat157 · #**5188** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 5:16 PM**

The cranes are finally in the sky, better late than never.

Chris from N.O. · #**5189** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 6:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nolacat157

The cranes are finally in the sky, better late than never.

@Hizzoner: I knew Blakely could get it done!

#selfindulgence

IceCream · #**5190** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 7:11 PM**

It is partnering with the NOLA Public Library to create the largest culinary library in the South which will be just down the street from the museum and close to Reconcile....nifty!

http://www.nola.com/food/index.ssf/2..._river_default

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It's official: New Orleans will have the largest culinary library in the South, a partnership between the Southern Food and Beverage Museum and the New Orleans Public Library.

The library will be located in the same block as Cafe Reconcile at 1609 O.C. Haley Blvd., and is scheduled to open in 2013, just down the street from the new location of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, scheduled to open at 1504 O.C. Haley Blvd. in the spring of 2013 in what used to be the Dryades Street market.

The area has not had a library since the 1940s.

The museum already has more than 9,000 volumes of cookbooks, menus, recipes, archivial documents and other literature about food and foodways of the South that will be housed there.....

- Rendering credit: Thoron

Blitzen · #**5191** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 8:17 PM**

According to their facebook page, St. Roch Market is holding the groundbreaking on Monday, July 23 at 2:15pm!!!

WesternSon · #**5192** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 8:22 PM**

Dat Dog is expanding into a space on Magazine- 3336 Magazine. That is the old uniform shop across from the new Jamba Juice!

That strip of Magazine is turning into an eaters row!

http://www.gardendistrictassociation.com/

ardecila · #**5193** Posted **Jul 18, 2012, 8:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by IceCream

- Rendering credit: Thoron

More images here:
http://officejt.com/sofab

The same architect is also developing a proposal for the east building of the Dryades Market, to become performance space for the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
http://officejt.com/nojo

He's also doing the apartments on Saratoga that I posted a few months ago.

tennis1400 · #**5194** Posted **Jul 19, 2012, 4:26 AM**

There is also a sign on Carondelet and Terpsichore showing the master plan for the New Orleans Culinary Institute. This area town is destined to be a foodies information heaven.

Found this rendering on the Sofab architects website. What is this very large tower in the rendering? do they know something we dont lol

ardecila · #**5195** Posted **Jul 19, 2012, 5:00 AM**

It's not a real skyline, the buildings are just pasted together. I think the big one is supposed to be Place St Charles.

tennis1400 · #**5196** Posted **Jul 19, 2012, 5:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by ardecila

It's not a real skyline, the buildings are just pasted together. I think the big one is supposed to be Place St Charles.

Everyother building is in its right place and this doesnt look like Place St Charles. Just curious why they did it!

UPT · #**5197** Posted **Jul 19, 2012, 5:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by tennis1400

Everyother building is in its right place and this doesnt look like Place St Charles. Just curious why they did it!

It looks like it's about where Trump Tower would be (right around Poydras and Camp/Magazine).

And no, I don't think it's intended to be Trump Tower!

The K&B building to the far right of the picture is also terribly out of place.

jbs2886 · #**5198** Posted **Jul 19, 2012, 5:22 AM**

I saw that too, it's definitely not Place St. Charles. Hopefully it is a new tower planned, even if it isn't too fancy.

IceCream · #**5199** Posted **Jul 19, 2012, 3:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by tennis1400

There is also a sign on Carondelet and Terpsichore showing the master plan for the New Orleans Culinary Institute. This area town is destined to be a foodies information heaven.

Most of that block was owned by Alton Doody who passed away last February or March. My exgf was his personal assistant who then went to Columbus, OH to work for the family in their corporate offices. They founded Bravo, Brio, and a variety of other restaurants which many are localized to that area of the country, but of course we do have Bravo down here.

I knew Alton fairly well in the last year or two of his life and he worked hard to open the institute up until the day he died, but the family has no interest in pursuing the project and those parcels, including the mansion and parking lot, have been up for sale for quite some time. I've seen the for sale signs change from time to time, but I'm not sure if any of the parcels have sold.

tennis1400 · #**5200** Posted **Jul 19, 2012, 3:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by IceCream

Most of that block was owned by Alton Doody who passed away last February or March. My exgf was his personal assistant who then went to Columbus, OH to work for the family in their corporate offices. They founded Bravo, Brio, and a variety of other restaurants which many are localized to that area of the country, but of course we do have Bravo down here.

I knew Alton fairly well in the last year or two of his life and he worked hard to open the institute up until the day he died, but the family has no interest in pursuing the project and those parcels, including the mansion and parking lot, have been up for sale for quite some time. I've seen the for sale signs change from time to time, but I'm not sure if any of the parcels have sold.

Given the changes occurring a block away in relation to food a culinary institute there makes more sense than it ever has! Lets hope something occurs as I think the synergy of all those places together will be quite interesting. I think food and beverage can be just like the biosciences and putting people together from all aspects of the process could lead to interesting thoughts concepts and creations.