NEW ORLEANS - "Disaster resilience and recovery" organization SBP (formerly known as the St. Bernard Project) and partners are beginning work on St. Peter Housing, a $7.4 million affordable housing development near the corner of Broad Street and Orleans Avenue…
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — So what do you when you have a dream project that you’re convinced can change your neighborhood but more than 100 people say no to helping you finance it? Terrica Smith just kept moving forward. As…
NEW ORLEANS – Urban Properties Real Estate - a New Orleans-based commercial brokerage, property management and development firm - recently helped two culinary brands find and lease locations in Baton Rouge. Good Bird, a healthy rotisserie chicken concept located on…
NEW ORLEANS - Officials with the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience announced the new museum will open this fall at 818 Howard Ave. Exhibits will explore the ways Jews in the American South influenced and were influenced by their…
NEW ORLEANS - Stirling Properties announced major renovations to the Pan American Life Center, a 673,000-square-foot office building at the corner of Poydras Street and St. Charles Avenue. Construction is currently underway on a $7 million redevelopment project that will…
GRETNA, La - The Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission, in partnership with the city of Gretna and the Jefferson Parish Council and Administration, is celebrating the grand opening of a local environmental consulting firm's new location. Leaaf Environmental LLC used…
NEW ORLEANS - It's been almost four months since the Oct. 12 Hard Rock Hotel partial collapse and yet there is still no confirmed plan to demolish the building, remove the remains of two of the workers who were killed…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell this week for the third straight week, as the benchmark 30-year loan marked its lowest point in three years. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate for the 30-year fixed-rate…
NEW ORLEANS - Since 2011, Blink Fitness gyms have earned a loyal following thanks to a combination of high-end feel and very low monthly membership fees (like $15 low ...). Even the news that Blink Fitness owner Stephen Ross is…
NEW ORLEANS –Korman Gerrity Real Estate has re-launched under the name Satsuma Realtors. Since 2009, Korman Gerrity has navigated tens of millions of dollars’ worth of NOLA property transactions. The rebranding comes as a result of rapid growth and the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices rose at a faster pace in November than the previous month as lower mortgage rates and a sharp drop in available properties have pushed would-be buyers to bid up home values. The S&P CoreLogic…
NEW ORLEANS - City Council Vice President Jason Williams proposed the creation of a temporary special committee of the Council's Criminal Justice Committee to investigate last October's partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel at Rampart and Canal streets. "I…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home sales climbed 3.8% in December, but a record-low inventory of houses on the market has caused prices to surge as affordability is worsening. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that sales of existing homes…
NEW ORLEANS - The Orpheum Theater opened its doors as a vaudeville venue in the New Orleans central business district in 1918, three years before the city’s famed Double Dealer literary journal began publication. So it’s appropriate that the Orpheum’s…
NEW ORLEANS - White Star Commercial Inc. will be hosting a neighborhood meeting regarding the former Frenchman's Wharf property Tuesday, Jan. 28 at Kipp Morial School, 7701 Grant St. This meeting will concern a planned development that would supersede the…
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The National Endowment for the Humanities will provide up to $125,000 to help restore the oldest building at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The Center for Louisiana Studies must raise another $375,000 over the next…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Plans are on again to implode a New Orleans hotel building that partially collapsed last fall, killing three workers, city officials said Friday. Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Fire Superintendent Tim McConnell said at a news conference…
NEW ORLEANS – When Dixie Brewing Company opens its doors to the public on Saturday, Jan. 25, it will end a 14-year local production hiatus that began when the brewery was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The new location (3501 Jourdan…
NEW ORLEANS - Latter & Blum Inc., the Louisiana real estate company with over $4.5 billion in sales in 2019, has announced the appointment of Lacey Merrick Conway as chief executive officer, succeeding her father Bob Merrick, who had served in…
NEW ORLEANS – Keller Williams New Orleans announced it will join forces with Urban Vision Properties, a full-service boutique real estate company led by 20-year real estate veteran M J Sauer. Keller Williams also named Sauer as its new co-broker…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Spending on U.S. construction projects rose a solid 0.6% in November as gains in home building and government projects offset weakness in nonresidential construction. It was the fifth consecutive monthly gain and a sharp improvement from a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices rose faster in October than the previous month as many would-be buyers competed for a limited supply of available properties. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 2.2% in October from a…
NEW ORLEANS - The Urban League of Louisiana hosts an event titled How to Become a Real Estate Appraiser from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 4640 S. Carrollton Ave. The event will explain how appraisers…
TERRYTOWN, La. - The Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission (JEDCO), in partnership with Jefferson Parish and the Tulane School of Architecture's Albert & Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, announced the release of a progressive strategic plan designed to improve the…
COVINGTON — Gov. John Bel Edwards and Medline Industries Inc. announced the company will build an 800,000-square-foot distribution center and plan to create more than 460 new direct jobs in St. Tammany Parish, near Covington, with 170 new jobs created…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction of new homes rose again in November while applications for building permits rose to the highest level in 12 years, both encouraging signs of a rebound in the housing market. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that…
NEW ORLEANS - Stroll past the kids dancing with bottle caps on their shoes, sidestep the construction workers standing neck deep in a hole in the sidewalk and become momentarily mesmerized by the knowing gaze of the fortune teller at…
NEW ORLEANS - The Columns Hotel has a new owner. Jacques and Claire Creppel, the 20-room hotel's owners for the last 40 years, sold it for an undisclosed sum to Jayson Seidman, a developer who has recently created two hip…
NEW ORLEANS – St. Charles Prime Properties LLC and InterMountain Management LLC announced the Dec. 10 opening of a 231-suite Residence Inn by Marriott at 360 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. One of the most-anticipated features of the new…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose this week. Still, rates remain at historically low levels as a lure to prospective homebuyers. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased to 3.73% from…
