BATON ROUGE (AP) — New Orleans' iconic Superdome may soon bear the Caesars Entertainment name and logo, under a 20-year naming rights deal with the Saints that is nearing completion and won required legislative backing Thursday. Terms of the contract…
NEW ORLEANS – Zip NOLA, a swamp zipline experience, is now open at 301 Peavine Road in LaPlace. Featuring five ziplines constructed 60 feet above the Maurepas Swamp, Zip NOLA offers thrill-seeking visitors and nature lovers the chance to traverse…
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Home construction in the U.S. jumped 6.3% in June, another big swing in a volatile year. The rise in June put home construction at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.64 million units, the Commerce…
NEW ORLEANS — The Mayor’s Office of Housing Policy and Community Development today announced it has approved applications for payment that will use the $18,266,472 in U.S. Treasury Funds sent directly to the City for its rental assistance program. The…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A federal freeze on most evictions enacted last year is scheduled to expire July 31, after the Biden administration extended the date by a month. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control…
NEW ORLEANS – LCMC Health has moved its corporate office to the Energy Centre, the 39-story skyscraper built in 1984 at 1100 Poydras Street in the Central Business District. The 12-year lease is for a total of 41,000 square feet…
NEW ORLEANS - Barracuda, the Uptown neighborhood taco stand and "margarita garden," has opened a second location at 446 Pelican Avenue in Algiers Point. In a press release, Barracuda founder Brett Jones said he was attracted to the location across…
NEW ORLEANS - Veteran New Orleans banker Jim Hudson, the former president of Omni Bank, is returning to the area to open the first south Louisiana branch of Bossier City-based Citizens National Bank. Hudson spent the last five years in…
METAIRIE — Soon, shoppers will have a new place to relax and unwind while braving the crowds at the mall. Creole Cuisine Restaurant Concepts announced plans to open a wine bar and café this fall in Lakeside Shopping Center. The…
NEW ORLEANS — Officials celebrated the opening of NOLA Detox and Recovery Center, a 36-bed addiction treatment facility, at a Monday ribbon cutting ceremony in Algiers. “Louisiana is at the center of the opioid crisis; people are dying from overdoses…
NEW ORLEANS - The Parade of Homes presented by the Home Builders Association of Greater New Orleans will be available for viewing from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. this weekend and next (July 17-18 and 24-25). The event is a…
NEW ORLEANS - From Southeast Louisiana Legal Services: Southeast Louisiana Legal Services has been awarded $3 million in funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security supplemental Community Development Block Grant funds from the City of New Orleans Office…
ARABI, La. (AP) — A New Orleans-area film and TV studio plans to expand into a building that opened in 1923 as an assembly plant for Model T Fords. The Ranch Film Studios didn't say what it paid for the…
NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans based real estate developer Anthony Marullo has launched the $100 million Louisiana Revitalization Fund aimed at "investing in the revitalization of the hospitality and other service-based industries that have recently suffered due to the pandemic,"…
NEW ORLEANS – Local nonprofit STEM NOLA said it will use a portion of a new $1.25 million dollar grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to create an innovation center in New Orleans East. The project is currently in…
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Trahan Architects, a global architecture firm with studios in New Orleans and New York City, announced today that it has received the award for The Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Practice in the “Large Firm in…
NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans’ Parklet Pilot Program and subsequent fee waivers have been extended from June 30 through Sept. 30 as the City continues to develop a permanent program. The extension also includes fee waivers for…
NEW ORLEANS – Mayor LaToya Cantrell has announced the start of the City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning Housing Policy, a change to the City’s zoning code that requires developers to build affordable housing units in neighborhoods with some of the highest…
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Ryan Gootee General Contractors has promoted four veteran members of its team. The promotions were earned by a preconstruction executive, a senior project manager and two project superintendents. “Like everyone last year, we spent significant…
NEW ORLEANS - As National Homeownership Month draws to a close, Hancock Whitney is touting results of its “Plan Your Way Home” initiative to increase homeownership opportunities for local families. Launched in 2018, the program combines financial literacy training and…
NEW ORLEANS - Cheryl McAdam has been named Latter & Blum's president, residential division. McAdam has been a Realtor for more than 37 years and has served as general sales manager for Latter & Blum's residential team for over a…
SLIDELL – A new Chicken Salad Chick location will open soon at 1522 Gause Boulevard in Slidell. The Southern inspired, fast casual restaurant concept offers more than a dozen original chicken salad flavors as well as side salads, soups, signature…
NEW ORLEANS - Here are the week's biggest business stories: The Hotel Saint Vincent is officially open at 1507 Magazine Street. The 75-room boutique hotel, which cost approximately $22.5 million to create, was developed by Austin-based hospitality hotshots Larry McGuire,…
NEW ORLEANS (press release) - Latter & Blum has appointed Chip Gardner vice president of operations, residential division. Gardner joined Latter & Blum in 2020 and he naturally fit into his new role, bringing forth his strong market expertise and…
NEW ORLEANS (press release) — The City of New Orleans has launched a new program operated by Southeast Louisiana Legal Services to prevent foreclosures on Orleans Parish homeowners directly or indirectly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The program is for…
NEW ORLEANS – Urban Properties Real Estate, a New Orleans-based commercial brokerage, property management and development firm, represented the buyer of The Frenchmen Hotel, 417 Frenchmen Street. Tyler Robinson, a founding Partner at Urban Properties, assisted the buyer, Robert Thompson,…
HARAHAN, La. - On Thursday, June 24, local leaders will attend a grand opening celebration at The Blake at Colonial Club, a $28 million assisted living and memory care community built on the former site of the shuttered Colonial Golf…
NEW ORLEANS — Starting this week, the University of New Orleans Research and Technology Park will go by its catchy new name: "The Beach at UNO." The Beach is a 30-acre site on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain with 800,000…
NEW ORLEANS – Nonprofit real estate development organization Providence Community Housing has announced that it will redevelop the former Our Lady of Lourdes school campus, located at the corner of a booming Freret Street and Napoleon Avenue. The renovation of…
NEW ORLEANS –Players Coalition, a nonprofit founded by NFL players Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins with the collective goal of making an impact on social justice and racial inequality, is hosting an in-person public discussion with New Orleans developers and…
