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New Urban New Orleans
New Orleans – New Urban Projects
Compiled by Gate Pratt (limehs@earthlink.net)
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune (ww.nola.com)
January 20, 2012
*rev1 – Jan 22,2012
please fact check all information for accuracy prior to citation.
A good article on the subject of the Public Housing projects, with photos, stats & links:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/02/the_architecture_of_new_orlean.html
The architecture of New Orleans' rebuilt public housing gets mixed reviews
February 13, 2011
The Big 4 Housing Projects:
Faubourg Lafitte (Laffitte) –
# of Units complete, phase 1: 134 of 517
Total Buildout = approx. 1,000 units
Project Cost: $32M (phase 1)
Replaces 897 units
Design Team: Planning-UDA / Architect - Michael Willis, San Francisco
Developer: Providence Community Housing, New Orleans
Harmony Oaks (C.J. Peete) –
# of Units complete, phase 1: 460
Total Buildout = ?
Project Cost: $178M (phase 1)
Replaces 1,000 units in old Magnolia Project
Design Team: Planning-Torti Gallas / Architect – KAI, St. Louis
Developer: McCormick, Barron, Salazar
Columbia Parc (St. Bernard) –
# of Units complete, phase 1: 466
Total Buildout = 778 (adding 312 phase 2)
Project Cost: $138M (phase 1)
Replaces 897 units
Design Team: Planning-Broadmoor Design, NOLA / Architect – JHP, Dallas
Developer: Columbia Residential, Atlanta
Desing assistance from LA Speaks Pattern Book
B.W. Cooper –
# of Units proposed, phase 1: 419
Total Buildout =
Project Cost: $118M, est’d phase 1
Replaces 1,000 units
Design Team: Planning-unknown/ Architect - unknown
Developer: unknown
Subtotal – Big 4: # of Units Complete: 1,060 / # proposed, total: 1,800+
Project cost to date: $328M (not incl. Cooper @$118M)
River Garden (St. Thomas) – 2004
# of Units complete:
Project Cost: unknown
Replaces: unknown
Design Team: Planning-unknown / Architect – unknown
Developer: McCormick, Barron, Salazar & HRI properties NOLA
Iberville – proposed
# of Units to be provided: 2,500 (800 on site, 1,700 scattered)
Project Cost: $589M
Replaces: 821
Design Team: Planning-unknown / Architect – unknown
Developer: McCormick, Barron, Salazar & HRI properties NOLA
Fischer
# of Units complete: 219
Project Cost: $8M +
Replaces: 1,000 units
Design Team: Planning-unknown / Architect –LRK
Developer:
Desire
# of Units complete: unknown
Project Cost: unknown
Replaces: unknown units
Design Team: Planning-UDA? / Architect –Torti Gallas & Partners
Developer: Michaels Development
Florida
# of Units complete: unknown
Project Cost: unknown
Replaces: unknown units
Design Team: Planning-unknown / Architect –unknown
Developer:
Imperial
# of Units complete: unknown
Project Cost: unknown
Replaces: unknown units
Design Team: Planning-unknown / Architect –unknown
Developer:
DPZ Projects –
Jackson Barracks
# of Units complete:
Project Cost:
Replaces:
Design Team: Planning-DPZ / Architect –
Developer: LA National Guard?
Federal City
# of Units complete:
Project Cost:
Replaces:
Design Team: Planning-DPZ / Architect –
Developer: US Navy?
New Urban Post-Katrina Recovery Planning Efforts in New Orleans -
1. Claiborne Avenue - Removing the I-10 overpass & restoring an urban boulevard.
Inititative & Study sponsored by: CNU in partnership with local Citizen’s Groups.
2. Recovery Planning Charrettes & Projects
-
- Gentilly Neighborhood Charrette 2006 - major grassroots effort with large NU team for very large area. Team: CNU/DPZ
- Gentilly (redux), CBD, and French Quarter – 3 charrettes: Team: Goody Clancy/DPZ
- Marigny - unofficial planning by DPZ
- Bywater - Corner Markers: affordable infill development prototypes (Duany/Dorney)
- New Orleans code rewrite influenced by NU work
3. Katrina Cottages
MISSISSIPPI:
Mississippi Gulf Coast Recovery Charettes & Planning
NU Charrettes & SmartCode Adoption occurred in the following Mississippi cities:
- Pass Christian
- D'Iberville
- Gulfport
- Long Beach? it was headed for adoption. Status Unknown
NU charrettes (2006 and later) in:
Waveland (Orr),
Bay St. Louis (Dennis)
Ocean Springs (Dover Kohl).
Prominent CNU Members in New Orleans
Jack Davis, CNU Board of Trustees
Ann Daigle, Princes Foundation for the Built Environment
Gaither Pratt, National Trust for Historic Preservation, New Orleans Field Office Director, 2010-2011
Patty Gay, Director of Preservation Resource Center
Scott Ball, DPZ Project Manager
Andres Duany –Developer, Bywater Houses
Non-Profit Housing Groups doing laudable tradional-inspired infill:
Preservation Resource Center – Rebuilding Together/Operation Comeback – Rehab 100+ existing houses
Build Now – 50+ houses,http://www.buildnownola.com/
Habitat for Humanity – Musician’s Village
Project Home Again – 100 houses by summer 2012,http://www.projecthomeagain.net/
*rev1 – added Desire/Florida/Imperial projects. Added NU NOLA & MS recovery charrettes
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