In the past few days I received an email petition asking the city to reopen Armstrong Park. I signed it, of course, as I’ve been a vocal proponent of the park’s reopening for many years, and we’ve had several features in our blogs about this subject. I understand that there’s also a group of young [...]
Tag Archives: Stewart Juneau
Le Triomphe Puts Auditorium Development on Hold
March 15, 2010 – 11:33 am
As Mayor Ray Nagin’s final term approaches its conclusion, he has talked about the city entering into personal services contracts and big ticket technology contracts, despite incoming Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s request that he not. One of those possible deals was taken off the table today when Stewart Juneau requested that the negotiations for a public service [...]
Shameless
December 31, 2009 – 10:38 am
In early November, we covered the proposed redevelopment of the Memorial Auditorium as CECI – the Center for Entertainment and Creative Industry. Reviewing what I wrote, I feel like I missed something obvious – that the proposed multi-purpose entertainment complex was given its ambitious sprawl to accumulate a broad constituency, which would make it harder [...]
First Signs of Trouble
November 11, 2009 – 10:47 am
After Monday’s blog post about CECI, one commenter responded: When two days after the announcement you get a double barrel assault from both the IG and James Gill blasting the project as corrupt, there is no way even the pliant members of the city council will sign on. For those who missed it, this morning The [...]
