Mid-City Neighborhood Organization

Mid-City Art Market will be held this Saturday, April 28 in Palmer Park(corner of Carrollton and Claiborne) from 10:00am-4:00pm.  Fifty + aritsts selling painting, pottery, jewelry, glass, sculpture, photography, textiles and accessories.  Food vendors include Juan’s, Crepes a la Cart, and Bayou Coffee House. Tony Green and Gypsy Jazz will perform 12:30-2:30pm.  Come enjoy a FREE festival with good food, music, local artists and fabulous spring weather. 

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We are pleased to share the preliminary results of our recent survey on retail development in Mid-City, which garnered 619 responses in just two weeks. We hope to publish a more detailed analysis soon. View the results.

Be sure to tune in to WDSU TV Channel 6 tonight (Friday, April 20) at 5:00 PM.

Roop Raj will be interviewing Natalie Lafont about the Heart of the City newsletter.

In order to analyze the data we have received over the past 2 weeks, the survey will close on Friday at 5pm. Just under 600 surveys have been completed so far.

If you haven’t completed your survey (it takes about 10-15 minutes) please do so today. Here’s the original post and the link you follow:

Please fill out this survey about planning and development in Mid-City.

MCNO is gathering this information to get a better sense of the type of new development that residents and business owners would support in Mid-City.

All answers to these questions will remain confidential. Thank you for your time!

The survey is now closed.

The official poster for the 2nd Annual Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo has been unveiled. Check it out.

From our friends at Silence Is Violence:

SilenceIsViolence an anti-violence campaign City Walk #3: Mid-City to Gert Town Sunday, April 15, 7pm SilenceIsViolence City Walks are weekly evening strolls from one New Orleans neighborhood to another. The walks take place each Sunday evening and are intended to establish a positive, sustainable anti-violence presence in our neighborhoods. We walk 1-2 miles each week and hold a small reception at our destination establishment. Transportation is provided back to the departure establishment.

City Walk #3 will take place on Sunday, April 15, departing at 7pm sharp!

START: Parkway Bakery and Tavern, 532 Hagan Ave. at Bayou St. John. Proceed up Jeff. Davis Pkwy. to Tulane Ave. Walk across the overpass; at the bottom, turn RIGHT onto Drexel Dr. Walk across Xavier University campus on Drexel Dr. Turn LEFT onto the last footbridge and cross the canal. Cross Washington Ave. and continue straight on Pine St. Turn RIGHT onto Stonelitz and LEFT onto Short St. Continue up Short St. to Earhart; cross Earhart to Daquiri Island.

STOP: Daquiri Island, 7908 Earhart Blvd. (2 miles total) Reception with music by the Soul Rebels Brass Band. Transportation will be provided back to Parkway between 8 and 9pm

Please fill out this survey about planning and development in Mid-City.

MCNO is gathering this information to get a better sense of the type of new development that residents and business owners would support in Mid-City.

All answers to these questions will remain confidential. Thank you for your time!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=747723626790

Please share this link with others.

Wednesday, April 4th’s edition of the Times-Picayune had the latest news and information on the proposed community center at Comiskey.

The community center was also featured on 99.5 FM, as DNA Media CEO Damon Harmon was interviewed. You can download the audio [mp3, 7MB].

Here’s the text of the article in the TP:
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Thanks to everybody who attended last night’s Mid-City Recovery Action Meeting. We had a very productive discussion about Victory Real Estate Investments plans for Mid-City. The comments made at this meeting will guide MCNO going forward. MCNO will also be conducting a survey to collect further input from the community.

For those who couldn’t make it, we will be posting minutes soon, and we hope to have video of the meeting online as well. Check back for updates.

• We have about 30 minutes of video thanks to Joe Laura and family
• Slideshow presentation in PDF format [300KB]
• Meeting minutes in Microsoft Word format and PDF format
• Victory Real Estate Investments’ website: vrei.net
• Article about meeting on Blogging New Orleans
• Article about meeting on WWLTV.com
• Article about meeting in Times-Picayune

(Regarding that article: What Jennifer Weishaupt really said was “If we can get it in Metairie or the West Bank, we don’t need it here” and the context of the discussion was chain restaurants, not shopping.)

The Mid-City Neighborhood Organization’s newsletter for Spring 2007 is available as a PDF file [download -- 610 KB]. Thanks to the authors and to Natalie for putting it together.

April 2nd is the first Monday of the month, and that means it’s time for our regular Mid-City Recovery Action Meeting: 6:30 - 8:00 PM at Grace Episcopal Church, 3700 Canal St.

The story in the paper has generated a lot of discussion. We hope it generates a lot of new faces at Monday’s meeting.

A substantial (45 - 60 minutes) portion of the meeting will be dedicated to discussion of Victory’s plans for the Bienville - Toulouse, Jeff Davis to Carrollton corridor, as well as what we understand about the Carrollton to N. Solomon portion (this is between Bienville & St. Louis), including:

1. Providing the background and timeline of what MCNO has learned about Victory’s plans and how we have engaged them in considering the neighborhood’s vision for the area.
2. Discussing the 2 different plans that have been presented by Victory to date.
3. Our efforts to poll the existing businesses in the area.
4. The support we have gained from Councilmembers Head & Midura’s offices regarding respecting the neighborhood plan.

In light of the large amount of information that we have to discuss, we encourage everyone to take a few minutes to read the Mid-City Recovery Plan and the Mid-City Rebuilding Plan [PDF 16MB] by Lambert & Associates. There are references throughout that apply to this specific area of Mid-City (Lindy Boggs, Industrial Corridors, Lafitte Greenway etc).

Lastly, invite your neighbors to join us Monday night. Of course, we have other business we will discuss as well.