MCNO Neighborhood Meeting on Monday
Announcements: (approx 25 minutes) 1. Green Roots Community Garden (3minutes) 2. Lafitte Greenway update- Daniel Samuels of the Lafitte Greenway Steering Committee (5minutes) 3. Centanni House (5minutes) 4. Doughboy Sleeper WWI Monument (3minutes) 5. Morris Jeff Community School call for Design Input (3minutes) 6. Milano New School for International Affairs, Urban Policy and Management (3minutes) [...]
Mignon Faget and Re-Bridge Join Forces for Preservation
Mignon Faget and Re-Bridge Team Up to Help Raise Funds New Orleans, LA — Mignon Faget and Re-Bridge have teamed up to raise matching funds to rehabilitate the Magnolia and Dumaine Street Bridges. The Magnolia Bridge is an historic treasure and was recently named to the Louisiana Landmark Society’s coveted “New Orleans Nine” list. [...]
Porch Crawl Porch Makes the News!
Saturday, October 15th issue of the Times Picayune highlights a Mid-City Porch which will be a stop on the upcoming MCNO Porch Crawl on October 21st. Read an excerpt from the article below or Click Here for the Full Article. Mid-City porch is always the center of family activity ALL IN THE FAMILY: The house [...]
WGSO 990 AM Series on Crime in New Orleans Begins Today
TODAY- THURSDAY on WGSO 990 AM radio at 5:00 PM Central “From the Ground Up”, a Live Topical Radio Discussion Series Focusing on Reducing Crime in Greater New Orleans. Host Live On The Air Brian Opert Today’s Topic: Crime Prevention / El Protector New Orleans Police Department Today’s Guest: Sgt. Michael A. LeVasseur, Commander Crime Prevention [...]
Mid-City Home Prices are RISING!
Metro Home Prices Fall, on Average, but “Star” Mid-City Bucks the Trend; Appreciates 15% In the August 21, 2011 Times Picayune, an article about data from the New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors painted a sobering portrait. The average price per square foot (psf) of homes in the New Orleans area fell 5% in the [...]
Use your EBT Card at the Farmers Market and get a $25 Match
Beginning July 16th, the Crescent City Farmers Market will match SNAP customer purchases when using their Louisiana Purchase (or other states’) EBT card up to $25 per market visit until funding runs out (last year it was 3 months, but we expect it to go much faster this year). In other words, if an SNAP shopper [...]
City Park Enhancements, NOLA.com
Read about City Park’s latest project on Nola.com. New Orleans City Park welcomes new Big Lake enhancements, plans for more
June Neighborhood Meeting – Central Topic: Blight and Revitalization
Download the June 13, 2011 Neighborhood Meeting Agenda. Mid-City Market: That you to everyone who was able to make it out to the June Neighborhood Meeting. We had an presentation from the developers which sparked some excellent questions and comments from our neighbors which will help drive the planning process of the development. If there [...]
Mid-City Market in the News
Nola.com wrote a story about the new Mid-City Market: “Winn-Dixie will anchor new Mid-City Market”
$3.5 million awarded to St. Margaret’s at former Lindy Boggs site
St. Margaret’s at Mercy Hospital in Mid-City was awarded $3.5 million in Project-Based Recovery Opportunity Program funding. Funding will transform the historic, but blighted, former Lindy Boggs and Catholic Sisters of Mercy Medical Center in Mid-City New Orleans, into an interdisciplinary campus comprising of a 116-bed skilled nursing home, a 290,000 square foot facility for specialty [...]
