[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "New Orleans acquires former Navy base in Bywater neighborhood"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Orleans acquires former Navy base in Bywater neighborhood

by Paul Purpura
New Orleans Times-Picayune (LA)
October 8, 2013

New Orleans now owns the former Naval Support Activity site at the  
foot of Poland Avenue in the Bywater neighborhood, Mayor Mitch  
Landrieu's press office confirmed Tuesday. The city and the  
Department of the Navy completed the transfer on Friday (Oct. 4),  
said Tyler Gamble, Landrieu's press secretary.

"The city is working on an agreement with the developer to take over  
upkeep of the facility while the developer agreement is being  
finalized," Gamble said in an e-mail message.

…

The city hopes to redevelop the site as a "resilience center," or a  
hub for disaster and emergency response agencies. The site overlooks  
the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Inner Harbor  
Navigation Canal, or Industrial Canal, and includes three large  
buildings that combined have about 1.5 million square feet of floor  
space as well as a five-story parking garage.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/10/ 
new_orleans_acquires_former_na.html

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Lenny Siegel
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