NEW ORLEANS | Project/Development Thread

[LouisianaRush]

Concrete manufacturing firm will set up operations in New Orleans this year

By Jaquetta White
The Times-Picayune
April 28, 2010, 4:48PM

A pre-stressed concrete manufacturing firm, whose parent company was founded in New Orleans but moved out of state six decades ago, will move into a berth at the Port of New Orleans, the company's head along with state and local officials announced Wednesday.

Atlantic Metrocast Inc., a subsidiary of Atlantic Wood Industries in Savannah, Ga., is investing $5 million to turn five acres of a former container terminal at France Road into a site that will produce pre-stressed and pre-cast concrete products, such as concrete pilings, slabs and beams. The product will be distributed throughout Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.

The company will begin manufacturing in three to four weeks, Bill Crossman, Atlantic Metrocast president and chief executive officer said. The company has already moved equipment to the site, which did not need much modification. Crossman said Atlantic Metrocast is starting to hire and plans to hit its employment goal of 100 in about a year.

http://www.nola.com/business/index.s...g_firm_wi.html

[sguil1]

Originally Posted by rschin2

looks like site prep is already starting to take place!!!

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...s_will_be.html

awesome news!

[ardecila]

At least the LSU/VA medical center will follow current trends in healthcare architecture.

Look familiar?


SocketSite

UCSF Mission Bay
currently under construction (San Francisco)

Yes, it has a parking lot, but, it's only one city block, and the curb cuts have been carefully planned (there's a whole website section talking about how the curb cuts are strategically placed to encourage pedestrianism).

[Blitzen]

I came across this photograph of the old French Opera House on Bourbon Street on another website. It's unfortunate that the State is building this $40mil warehouse looking theatre on Airline Hwy, while the Orpheum and State Palace sit in disrepair with no sign on redevelopment.

[ardecila]

^ The state isn't building anything, it's Jefferson Parish building that thing.

Oh, and I read Shorpy too. Imagine my pleasure at seeing that beautiful thing in my inbox today...

[SlidellWx]

A cool video showing what the future expansion at MSY will look like. After it's done A & B will be closed. It will be interesting to watch the airport change over the next couple of years.

http://www.flymsy.com/Capitol_Conceptions/videohome.htm

[DillardAlum]

Thanks for posting that video. It has me all excited again!

I'm really enjoying how local agencies are taking advantage of video and other PR technologies to create a buzz, which is so important to redevelopment and repopulation.

The Bioinnovation has a new video up too:

http://www.neworleansbio.com/index2.html

Not much new, but like the Armstrong video it inspires a sense of excitement and progress.

[sguil1]

This puts the LSU Academic Hospital project in perspective. Will ensure that LSUHSC will be here for the next 60+ years. Would be a disaster for the city if it moved to BR.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...cal_schoo.html

[LouisianaRush]

As an LSU alumni, I do not understand the push by some to move LSU Medical to Baton Rouge. New Orleans is where the major medical facilities of Louisiana are located, it is where a plurality of our people live, and it has the infrastructure in place. There is just so much hate toward New Orleans in parts of Louisiana. I just do not get it.

[Blitzen]

Great News! The idea to turn the abandoned railroad tracks running parallel to Lafitte Street into a linear park with bike path will be addressed by City Hall.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...ar_park_p.html

[LouisianaRush]

Wow that looks great. Now people who live near City Park can bike safely to the quarter and downtown.

[Blitzen]

Originally Posted by LouisianaRush

Wow that looks great. Now people who live near City Park can bike safely to the quarter and downtown.

Yes, another great thing about this park is that the side-streets don't cross the park, only the major intersections - so bikers won't have to stop every few hundred feet for traffic.

The city should consider doing this same thing to the abandoned rail lines in the Bywater/Upper Ninth Ward.

[sguil1]

Looks like work is beginning on Superdome/New Orleans Center project. Bridge between the mall and dome has been torn down.

[sguil1]

Also pile drivers are on site of the Orleans parish prison just off I-10 for the first phase of their new complex. Hard to get excited about a prision project but at leat some of those eye sores near the interstate will be torn down.


03-02-2010
Today, officials from the City of New Orleans and FEMA joins Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman to mark the official start of construction on the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office’s new Correctional Complex.

The new Kitchen/Warehouse facility is the first building of a new, safer, more secure and efficient jail complex for Orleans Parish. It will be a three-story, 163,885 square-foot modern structure that will meet or exceed the standards and codes of the American Correctional Association.

This facility is the first project of the new Correctional Complex plan and is estimated to be completed in late 2012.

http://www.opcso.org/index.php?optio...news&Itemid=50

[Uptowner]

Anyone seen plans for the new OPP?

[Uptowner]

Any thoughts on this?
CANAL BOULEVARD BUS and STREETCAR TERMINAL PROJECT | NORTA.com

I'm mobile so I can't post pictures or plans.

[Nolacat157]

That intersection at City Park and Canal is very dangerous for the people trying to cross from the end of the street car line over to Canal Blvd for the bus station. Consolidating both of those stations is a great idea.

[sguil1]

Money approved to convert Superdome bridge into gateway steps

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...vert_supe.html

See above picture.

[sguil1]

Rouses rumor feeds CBD grocery hopes

Rumor has it that Rouses supermarket is moving into the old Sewell Cadillac location on Baronne Street. Owner Donald Rouse isn't talking, but just about everyone else is. "Anybody who works or lives downtown is extremely excited about the possibility," said Sean Talbot of the Talbot Realty Firm. "It's huge, one step closer to being perceived ...
http://neworleanscitybusiness.com/bl...grocery-hopes/

[blueingreen]

I drove through the VA site today. There were three lots which were clearly the recently demolished houses, but otherwise life in the neighborhood seems to be going on as normal. I'm just not seeing how they could be breaking ground by this summer.

Is there anymore news about what percentage of these houses will be moved verus demolished?