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214 Royal St·Renovation (Structural) · Ref Code:77C0RC
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Type:
Renovation (Structural)
Applicant:
Nathan Garnache
Status:
Application Submitted
Date Filed:
11/23/2020
Closed:
No
Description:
This submission is for the VCC Architectural Committee meeting. The project consists of a renovation to one tower of the Hotel Monteleone, located on the corner of Royal and Iberville Streets. The renovation will include new finishes, and new mechanical/plumbing/electrical/fire alarm/sprinkler systems. There are 4 new windows to be added at the 2nd floor of the Iberville facade. The aluminum sliding windows from floor 10-15 will be replaced new aluminum sliding windows. The steel windows that face the other portions of the hotel are to be replaced with new aluminum double hung windows. The other windows are to remain. There is no proposed work at the ground floor, or the top top levels and roof.






2740 St Louis St·Renovation (Structural) · Ref Code:1B2M13
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Type:
Renovation (Structural)
Applicant:
Albert Architecture
Status:
Application Submitted
Date Filed:
11/23/2020
Closed:
No
Description:
Structural interior tenant improvements. Change of Use and exterior elements handled in a separate permit.





1 Canal St·Electrical Service / Circuit / Feeder · Ref Code:NKFVEB
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Type:
Electrical Service / Circuit / Feeder
Applicant:
Stephen T Frischhertz
Status:
Application Submitted
Date Filed:
11/20/2020
Closed:
No
Description:
TEMP SERVICE FOR NEW FERRY

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Things are really coming together at the City Square 162 site! Check out the photos below from our project partner The Housing Authority of New Orleans to see the latest progress

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Saratoga Square Remediation to begin on November 30, 2020
Roadwork NOLA from City of New Orleans · 1 day ago
Photo from Roadwork N.
S. Saratoga Square is one of the many sites in the federally-funded Drainage Pump Station (DPS) 01 Watershed Project. The main purpose of this Hazard Mitigation project is to alleviate flooding in the area.

The S. Saratoga site will become the future site of a water storage feature that will help alleviate flooding. However, the city must remediate the land before it can be safely used. Because this site used to house an incinerator, it was found to have low levels of contaminants.

Remediation efforts are scheduled to begin on November 30, 2020, weather permitting, and will last approximately one week.

The remediation work includes removing contaminated materials from S. Saratoga Square and disposing of those materials properly, at an offsite disposal site. During the remediation work, air monitoring will be performed to make sure there is no airborne contamination and air levels are safe for Saratoga Square neighbors and free from contaminants.

The remediation work is the first step in converting the S. Saratoga Square site into a 142,000-cubic-feet dry detention pond as part of DPS01 Watershed Project. The dry pond will hold over 1 million gallons of stormwater in the future. The project also includes installing landscaping and replacing damaged sidewalks in and around S. Saratoga Square to improve walkability.

During remediation, residents can expect to see air monitoring professionals onsite, construction crew members and work trucks in the vicinity.

Edited 1 day ago · Posted Nov 23, 2020 · Subscribers of City of New Orleans in 45 neighborhoods in General











District B
CONVENTION CENTER BOULEVARD CONSTRUCTION SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE
November 19, 2020 | Category: District B | Tagged as: Convention Center Blvd
CONVENTION CENTER BOULEVARD CONSTRUCTION SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE
The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center has been reconstructing Convention Center Boulevard between Poydras and Henderson streets in the Warehouse District. The construction project, which is now substantially complete, is part of the $557M Convention Center Development District Project that included converting Convention Center Boulevard into a landscaped public park. The contractor is finishing up a few details this month.

Scope of work for the project included:

Reducing the 4-lane roadway configuration to two travel lanes, one in each direction;
Constructing a Transportation Center to accommodate shuttles, buses and taxis;
A wide covered walkway to protect pedestrians from the elements;
New traffic signals, crosswalks and pedestrian signals; and
Improvements to the porches at St. Joseph Street and Heritage Park.

The new roadway of Convention Center Boulevard, from Poydras to Henderson Streets, has reopened and the improved boulevard features one lane in each direction with a cobblestone safety strip dividing the two lanes. Crews also completed construction of a 7.5-acre public park that runs the length of the building.

View more details about the project here.






Steel Erection is underway on the 5-story TMG Crime Lab Project.
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619 Royal St·Renovation (Structural) · Ref Code:U5MDPK
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Type:
Renovation (Structural)
Applicant:
Peer Architects Trapolin
Status:
Application Submitted
Date Filed:
11/18/2020
Closed:
No
Description:
Renovation of existing 3 story masonry creole building and service wing for white box tenant spaces.

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That Saratoga project is cool. I always thought that block was for cemetery expansion, guess not. Hard to tell what the park will look like without seeing a 3d view.

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Originally Posted by ardecila

That Saratoga project is cool. I always thought that block was for cemetery expansion, guess not. Hard to tell what the park will look like without seeing a 3d view.

While this one will be a full block you can get a basic idea if you look up pictures of the ones that are in Gentilly area. They are actually pretty neat features for a neighborhood. Attractive and serve a purpose at least

[ardecila]

Do you know if the huge one in Gentilly broke ground (Mirabeau)?

I'm glad to see that interest in these projects is not fading away with the memory of Katrina.

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Originally Posted by ardecila

Do you know if the huge one in Gentilly broke ground (Mirabeau)?

I'm glad to see that interest in these projects is not fading away with the memory of Katrina.

not sure they do have banners out there now at least

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LSU Dorm

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1050 S Jefferson Davis Prkwy, 1050 S Jefferson Davis Prkwy Ste 239, 44·Conditional Use · Project #ZD072-20 · Ref Code:617QHR
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Type:
Conditional Use
Applicant:
Jennifer M Halpern
Status:
Staff Report
Date Filed:
7/7/2020
Closed:
No
Description:
Planned Development for dwellings above the ground floor and adaptive reuse of the building for offices, retail and residential.

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930 Canal St·HDLC COA · Ref Code:FRVP42
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Type:
HDLC COA
Applicant:
Jill Shingledecker
Status:
Returned for revision
Date Filed:
11/30/2020
Closed:
No
Description:
This project consists of the conversion of an existing unoccupied building into 4 new short term rental units with a commercial space below.

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Former Brown’s Dairy 1400 Baronne Street, New Orleans
Proposed New Use
The proposed new residential development will occupy the former Brown’s Dairy site bounded by Carondelet, Baronne, Erato Streets and Martin Luther King Boulevard. The 3.89 acre site is one-block from St. Charles Avenue and less than a 1/2 mile from downtown and the Central Business District. The developers acquired the site in September 2020 and are currently undertaking environmental remediation and demolition work.
The developers propose to raze the current factory building on the premises and partition the site into approximately 51 lots, each encompassing approximately 2,500 square feet - similar in size and proportion to a typical New Orleans residential lot. Fifteen of the lots, approximately 30%, will be reserved for affordable homes. Plans call for re-opening Thalia Street to reconnect the city street grid, which the sponsors expect to undertake with city financial support.
1400 Baronne Developers will construct a mix of different houses on the 51 lots, including both single and two-family homes. A typical double will include an 1,100 – 1,300 square foot primary unit and a 450 – 750 square foot secondary unit. The primary unit is intended for owner occupancy and the secondary unit is intended to be an income producing rental unit.
Homeowners will be free to use the home as they see fit, and some may choose to rent the larger unit and live in the smaller one. Others may choose to occupy the entire house. A key consideration for the development team is to design homes that can evolve and change over time to meet the needs of its occupants and the community. The project will create between 65 - 85 total housing units.
The developers propose to phase the development over time as the market demands. Once site and infrastructure work is complete, the team will construct 8-12 houses at a time.
The development team plans to sell 15 income-restricted homes at cost. Other than a market-rate development fee, there is no profit built into the affordable homes. The developers are seeking public funding to offset its infrastructure and site development costs. This will allow 100% of savings to be passed directly to home buyers in the form of a reduced purchase price.
The income-restricted homes are intended for buyers earning between 80% - 120% of the Area Median Income (AMI). In order to make the homes affordable to households in these income brackets, the project requires a Soft-Second Mortgage to reduce the upfront costs and a property tax abatement to reduce carrying costs and support mortgage payments.







1233 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd·Demolition · Ref Code:WVEXU3
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Type:
Demolition
Applicant:
Daniel Kattan
Status:
Application Submitted
Date Filed:
11/29/2020
Closed:
No
Description:
Demolition of structure and foundation to grade. Load and haul debris to landfill. Backfill footprint of structure and grade level upon completion.

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Originally Posted by tennis1400

Former Brown’s Dairy 1400 Baronne Street, New Orleans
Proposed New Use
The proposed new residential development will occupy the former Brown’s Dairy site bounded by Carondelet, Baronne, Erato Streets and Martin Luther King Boulevard. The 3.89 acre site is one-block from St. Charles Avenue and less than a 1/2 mile from downtown and the Central Business District. The developers acquired the site in September 2020 and are currently undertaking environmental remediation and demolition work.
The developers propose to raze the current factory building on the premises and partition the site into approximately 51 lots, each encompassing approximately 2,500 square feet - similar in size and proportion to a typical New Orleans residential lot. Fifteen of the lots, approximately 30%, will be reserved for affordable homes. Plans call for re-opening Thalia Street to reconnect the city street grid, which the sponsors expect to undertake with city financial support.
1400 Baronne Developers will construct a mix of different houses on the 51 lots, including both single and two-family homes. A typical double will include an 1,100 – 1,300 square foot primary unit and a 450 – 750 square foot secondary unit. The primary unit is intended for owner occupancy and the secondary unit is intended to be an income producing rental unit.
Homeowners will be free to use the home as they see fit, and some may choose to rent the larger unit and live in the smaller one. Others may choose to occupy the entire house. A key consideration for the development team is to design homes that can evolve and change over time to meet the needs of its occupants and the community. The project will create between 65 - 85 total housing units.
The developers propose to phase the development over time as the market demands. Once site and infrastructure work is complete, the team will construct 8-12 houses at a time.
The development team plans to sell 15 income-restricted homes at cost. Other than a market-rate development fee, there is no profit built into the affordable homes. The developers are seeking public funding to offset its infrastructure and site development costs. This will allow 100% of savings to be passed directly to home buyers in the form of a reduced purchase price.
The income-restricted homes are intended for buyers earning between 80% - 120% of the Area Median Income (AMI). In order to make the homes affordable to households in these income brackets, the project requires a Soft-Second Mortgage to reduce the upfront costs and a property tax abatement to reduce carrying costs and support mortgage payments.

Interesting. Who's the developer behind this? Kind of surprised to see individual home sites on that lot. The property was listed for $4.5mm according to LoopNet. If the purchase price was anywhere close to that, then you'd be running $100k/lot easy in just land costs after you do the extensive infrastructure and site work necessary here (and God knows what kind of soil remediation issues you'd run into). What are people going to pay for new construction in that neighborhood (seriously, though, are there even any good comps--BEFORE you start adding in the complexities of pricing in some sort of ADU/duplex model on the lots)?) I mean, I guess if you can get the city to help you with site costs, it maybe starts to pencil out. But it sounds tight. And REALLY speculative. I guess a phased building plan might help, but not with the significant upfront costs as they are.

But who knows, if the sale price was closer to half the list, maybe it starts to price out.

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Originally Posted by polemic

Interesting. Who's the developer behind this? Kind of surprised to see individual home sites on that lot. The property was listed for $4.5mm according to LoopNet. If the purchase price was anywhere close to that, then you'd be running $100k/lot easy in just land costs after you do the extensive infrastructure and site work necessary here (and God knows what kind of soil remediation issues you'd run into). What are people going to pay for new construction in that neighborhood (seriously, though, are there even any good comps--BEFORE you start adding in the complexities of pricing in some sort of ADU/duplex model on the lots)?) I mean, I guess if you can get the city to help you with site costs, it maybe starts to pencil out. But it sounds tight. And REALLY speculative. I guess a phased building plan might help, but not with the significant upfront costs as they are.

But who knows, if the sale price was closer to half the list, maybe it starts to price out.

I believe that loopnet price was for the whole browns dairy two block site. a portiong of that block thats in between thalia and mlk was not in the sales price. I cant find an exact sales price either . The other parts of the borwns dairy towards oc haley and some other outparcels were sold to different entitites but they were never included in the listing you are referring to .

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Originally Posted by polemic

Interesting. Who's the developer behind this? Kind of surprised to see individual home sites on that lot. The property was listed for $4.5mm according to LoopNet. If the purchase price was anywhere close to that, then you'd be running $100k/lot easy in just land costs after you do the extensive infrastructure and site work necessary here (and God knows what kind of soil remediation issues you'd run into). What are people going to pay for new construction in that neighborhood (seriously, though, are there even any good comps--BEFORE you start adding in the complexities of pricing in some sort of ADU/duplex model on the lots)?) I mean, I guess if you can get the city to help you with site costs, it maybe starts to pencil out. But it sounds tight. And REALLY speculative. I guess a phased building plan might help, but not with the significant upfront costs as they are.

But who knows, if the sale price was closer to half the list, maybe it starts to price out.

The density is a little disappointing for a large site close to Warehouse/CBD, but I like the site plan! Restoring Thalia, putting a little pocket park along Thalia, giving all the lots access to a rear alley for parking, etc.

I agree there are questions about the proforma. Unless they have a signed agreement with the city obligating them to assist with site costs, it's pretty risky. Usually you don't close on the land purchase until you have all the other ducks in a row. I guess if the city doesn't come through, they can switch to a more intensive development scheme like a Texas wrap apartment building (barf).

There are plenty of comps for 2 unit buildings - double shotguns or other building types. They probably need to get LGD prices rather than Central City prices, but I think that's possible. Between St Charles and OC Haley this area has a huge concentration of shops and restaurants in walking distance.

[Nickapedia]

Originally Posted by ardecila

The density is a little disappointing for a large site close to Warehouse/CBD, but I like the site plan! Restoring Thalia, putting a little pocket park along Thalia, giving all the lots access to a rear alley for parking, etc.

I agree there are questions about the proforma. Unless they have a signed agreement with the city obligating them to assist with site costs, it's pretty risky. Usually you don't close on the land purchase until you have all the other ducks in a row. I guess if the city doesn't come through, they can switch to a more intensive development scheme like a Texas wrap apartment building (barf).

There are plenty of comps for 2 unit buildings - double shotguns or other building types. They probably need to get LGD prices rather than Central City prices, but I think that's possible. Between St Charles and OC Haley this area has a huge concentration of shops and restaurants in walking distance.

I know the purchaser of the land and he is reputable and very capable. He acquired for substantially below the asking price. The buyer has put together a large team of development professionals to work through the complexities of what they have currently proposed. Its a genuine effort to build what might be called "attainable housing" or non-subsidized housing that is affordable to people at 80%-120% AMI so think fire fighters, teachers, medical assistants etc. Doing 8-12 homes at a time, each permitted as a single or two family home on its own lot means they will not need to meet ADA and they can probably strike a deal with a contractor to get them built for +/- $120/sqft. There is enough clout on this team and the project could generate enough goodwill that city hall will probably figure out a way to help pay for the thalia connection and get a soft second program together. The city should be able access federal/state pots of money for new road construction. And if it doesnt work the site has great zoning based on what they paid for the land there are plenty of other market rate options they can pursue.

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Originally Posted by Nickapedia

I know the purchaser of the land and he is reputable and very capable. He acquired for substantially below the asking price. The buyer has put together a large team of development professionals to work through the complexities of what they have currently proposed. Its a genuine effort to build what might be called "attainable housing" or non-subsidized housing that is affordable to people at 80%-120% AMI so think fire fighters, teachers, medical assistants etc. Doing 8-12 homes at a time, each permitted as a single or two family home on its own lot means they will not need to meet ADA and they can probably strike a deal with a contractor to get them built for +/- $120/sqft. There is enough clout on this team and the project could generate enough goodwill that city hall will probably figure out a way to help pay for the thalia connection and get a soft second program together. The city should be able access federal/state pots of money for new road construction. And if it doesnt work the site has great zoning based on what they paid for the land there are plenty of other market rate options they can pursue.

Great... its nice to see the market addressing the housing needs of this income bracket

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I dont think I ever realized how much of the interstate besides the overpasses themselves were being changed. The road construction is stretching all the way to Williams eastbound

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Originally Posted by Nickapedia

I know the purchaser of the land and he is reputable and very capable. He acquired for substantially below the asking price. The buyer has put together a large team of development professionals to work through the complexities of what they have currently proposed. Its a genuine effort to build what might be called "attainable housing" or non-subsidized housing that is affordable to people at 80%-120% AMI so think fire fighters, teachers, medical assistants etc. Doing 8-12 homes at a time, each permitted as a single or two family home on its own lot means they will not need to meet ADA and they can probably strike a deal with a contractor to get them built for +/- $120/sqft. There is enough clout on this team and the project could generate enough goodwill that city hall will probably figure out a way to help pay for the thalia connection and get a soft second program together. The city should be able access federal/state pots of money for new road construction. And if it doesnt work the site has great zoning based on what they paid for the land there are plenty of other market rate options they can pursue.

That is awesome to hear, the city could use more of this for the majority of our actual residents

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