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Originally Posted by sguil1
Wow, new city hall looks great FlaTiger. Any idea on the status of this project. All conjecture right now or is there a real chance of this happening.
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It's not a city hall, it's a state office building. In other words, a place for Jindal's boys to sit in comfort while NO city government sits in a rusting hulk across the street.
I love the design, but they should be re-doing Duncan Plaza as well. The gazebo there looks so bush-league it's ridiculous. It belongs in some park out in Covington, not the center of downtown New Orleans. How about something that adds some night-time vitality, a sort of mini-Millennium Park? Brilliantly-glowing parks are a tradition here, between Armstrong Park and Palmer Park. The National Jazz Center proposed for this area earlier had a touch of that, a grand vision to infuse activity into downtown. This is just another office building, although at least it's a nice one.
The article about the Hyatt is pure awesome. That is perhaps one of the single most visible scars remaining from Katrina. For God's sake, the H is missing from the Hyatt sign on the east side. Re-opening the hotel will add some activity and traffic to this area. However, I'm concerned that the city will exhaust its demand for hotels and we will end up with another round of closings.