[CPEO-BIF] Demolishing New Orleans Homes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Building Demolition Begins in New Orleans

Army engineers have started tearing down homes identified as public 
safety risks, while preservationists work to save historic neighborhoods

By Angelle Bergeron, for Engineering News-Record
Business Week Online
March 15, 2006

Building demolition in New Orleans has just begun, while rebuilding 
efforts in the city continue to be stymied by uncertainties. Meanwhile, 
preservationists, architects and structural engineers are still hard at 
work trying to save the city's historic neighborhoods and significant 
structures from demolition.

On March 6 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began tearing down the first 
125 homes in the city that had been identified as a "risk to public 
health and safety." These were slated to be destroyed by the end of the 
month, says John Fogarty, assistant area engineer tasked with debris 
removal and demolition for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Structures 
in the first wave of demolition were located in public rights of way, 
and the majority were in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, Fogarty said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar2006/id20060315_257998.htm?chan=innovation_architecture_top+stories

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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