Entergy representative fields questions from neighborhood

 Posted by at 6:57 pm  city government, neighborhood groups, recovery, weather
Sep 042012
 

A utility worker makes repairs Monday from a bucket truck on Tchoupitoulas between Henry Clay and Calhoun. (photo courtesy of Nicole Williamson, via Twitter)

Entergy had all the reason in the world to bow out of a Tuesday-night presentation before the Audubon Riverside Neighborhood Association scheduled before Hurricane Isaac, group leaders noted. So when a manager from the utility showed up and began taking questions, the small audience gave him a gentler reception than the Entergy CEO had received before the City Council earlier in the day. Continue reading »

Audubon-Riverside Neighborhood Association to hear updates on Reginelli’s, cultural district

 Posted by at 12:59 pm  neighborhood groups
Aug 072012
 

The Audubon Riverside Neighborhood Association will hear updates on the project to move Reginelli’s Pizzeria across Magazine Street and on the proposed Uptown-University Cultural District that would create tax credits for historic renovations at a meeting at 6:45 p.m. tonight (Tuesday, Aug. 7) at St. Paul’s church, 616 Eleonore Street). Continue reading »

Uptown university area slated for tax-free art sales, historic renovation tax credits

 Posted by at 5:06 pm  arts, books and music, city government, neighborhood groups, state government
Jul 042012
 

A map of the proposed Uptown-University cultural district, marked in red. Previously existing cultural districts are shown in yellow. (map courtesy of the state Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.)

A major section of Uptown from Carrollton to Napoleon Avenue could soon become exempt from sales taxes on sales of original art, and most property owners in the area could become eligible for state tax credits for nearly any kind of renovations they do to their homes under a program on track for approval this summer. Continue reading »

Grandmother graduating from Tulane, headed to Harvard Divinity School

 Posted by at 1:39 pm  Uncategorized
May 182012
 

Jane Wolfe (photo by Paula Burch-Celentano of Tulane University, tulane.edu/news/newwave)

Graduating from Tulane this weekend with a double major in religious studies and history, 47-year-old Jane Wolfe will begin studies this fall at Harvard Divinity School on a master’s degree in theological studies, according to the Tulane New Wave university news service. Wolfe and her husband, Uptown-based businessman and Audubon-Riverside Neighborhood Association member Scott Wolfe, will both move to Cambridge, Mass., but plan to return afterward, the article states.

Audubon-Riverside neighbors hold monthly meeting

 Posted by at 11:07 am  neighborhood groups
May 012012
 

The Audubon-Riverside Neighborhood Association will holds its monthly meeting at 6:45 p.m. tonight (Tuesday, May 1) at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, 616 Eleonore Street. Discussion will include an update on Johnny V’s restaurant, the city’s outdoor film screening program and the status of upgrades to the association’s website.

Audubon Riverside neighbors consider park improvements

 Posted by at 6:55 pm  city government, neighborhood groups
Apr 032012
 

Members of the Audubon Riverside Neighborhood Association relax after their annual Easter egg hunt Sunday at Alma Peters Park. The association is considering ways to upgrade the park. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

With a nest egg of unspent membership dues built up over the years, the Audubon Riverside Neighborhood Association has begun discussing possible projects to improve nearby parks. Continue reading »

Surprise early opening of Johnny V’s frustrates neighborhood association

 Posted by at 6:53 pm  business, city government, food and drink, neighborhood groups
Feb 072012
 

Johnny V's on Magazine Street, photographed in September. (UptownMessenger.com file photo by Robert Morris)

Johnny V’s is now open on Magazine Street, but the discovery that the controversial restaurant was allowed to quietly begin operation without fulfilling all the conditions set forth by the city — including signing a good-neighbor agreement — frustrated the board of the Audubon Riverside Neighborhood Association.

“They’re being rewarded for being non-compliant,” said ARNA member Cele Gordon during Tuesday’s board meeting. Continue reading »

City recommends keeping apartments on State and Tchoupitoulas, DePaul site on Calhoun as-is

 Posted by at 6:00 pm  business, city government, colleges, neighborhood groups
Jan 102012
 

Neighbors concerned about the future of two large Uptown properties near Audubon Park — an apartment complex on Tchoupitoulas and a mental health facility on Calhoun — received hopeful signs Tuesday night that the city is inclined to prevent major changes to either of them. Continue reading »

Neighbors to bring concerns about Tchoupitoulas apartments’ future before city

 Posted by at 6:48 pm  business, city government, neighborhood groups
Jan 032012
 

The apartment complex at State and Tchoupitoulas, photographed in August. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

The effort to “Keep Tchoup Residential” (as the yard signs say) will get a public hearing next week, when one Uptown neighborhood group plans to ask for land-use rules that will prevent a large apartment complex from undergoing any sort of commercial transformation. Continue reading »

With new hospital as worst-case scenario, neighbors rally to keep DePaul site “quiet”

 Posted by at 3:18 pm  business, city government, colleges
Dec 132011
 

An aerial view of the DePaul medical campus next to Audubon Park in the Upper Hurstville neighborhood. (via maps.google.com)

Concerned that Children’s Hospital might one day develop the tranquil DePaul mental-health campus next to Audubon Park into a full-fledged hospital complex, a group of neighbors made a concerted effort before the city Tuesday to halt those changes before they happen. Continue reading »

Walgreens developer buys old American Legion hall on Magazine, begins initial renovations

 Posted by at 6:21 pm  business, city government, neighborhood groups
Dec 062011
 

The most recent rendering of plans for the redevelopment of the old American Legion hall on Magazine Street into a new Walgreens store.

Renovations began Monday that will convert the former American Legion hall on Magazine Street into a new Walgreens pharmacy, after the developer of the project finalized its purchase of the building late last month. Continue reading »

Restaurant on Magazine, nightclub on Freret, demolition on St. Charles all cleared to move forward

 Posted by at 11:36 am  blight and demolition, business, city government, food and drink, neighborhood groups
Nov 032011
 

A new restaurant on Magazine Street, a new nightclub on Freret Street and a new home in place of a historic one were all given approval by the City Council on Thursday, though each project has drawn its share of objections.

Johnny V’s restaurant next to Monkey Hill bar and the proposed Publiq House in the first floor of the Neighborhood Housing Services building on Freret were given tentative approval to step forward, receiving an affirmative vote that will not go into effect until good-neighbor agreements are signed. Meanwhile, a historic home on St. Charles Avenue can be demolished, after the council decided that the home that will replace it represents an improvement to the showcase street. Continue reading »

Controversial home demolition on St. Charles, restaurant on Magazine and nightclub on Freret all headed to City Council

 Posted by at 11:56 am  blight and demolition, business, city government, neighborhood groups
Nov 022011
 

Three Uptown land-use projects that have each generated a fair amount of controversy — the proposed demolition of a historic home on St. Charles Avenue, permission for a restaurant to open in spite of unpermitted additions and a new nightclub on Freret Street — are all slated for New Orleans City Council hearing on Thursday, according to the agenda. Continue reading »

Whole Foods ekes out minor concessions from City Council: 9 p.m. closing time, pumpkins on the patio

 Posted by at 1:24 pm  business, city government, food and drink
Oct 212011
 

After nearly a year of discussions and negotiations with neighbors and the city, Whole Foods Arabella Station will now be able to stay open an hour later on Sundays and display plants for sale on its front patio, with the official approval Thursday of only the least controversial of its requested changes to its operating agreement with the city. Continue reading »

Neighborhoods to celebrate “Night Out Against Crime” with movie, health fair, cookouts and music

 Posted by at 10:29 am  crime, events, neighborhood groups, public safety
Oct 112011
 

Neighborhoods around the city are preparing to celebrate the “National Night Out Against Crime” tonight (Tuesday, Oct. 11), and Uptown groups are all doing it their own way, with a movie night, a charity flea market, a health fair, multiple cookouts and live music. Continue reading »

Neighbors hope to stave off commercial redevelopment of apartments on Tchoupitoulas

 Posted by at 6:43 pm  blight and demolition, business, city government, neighborhood groups
Oct 042011
 

The apartment complex at State and Tchoupitoulas, photographed in August. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

Concerned that an apartment complex at the corner of State and Tchoupitoulas may be headed for unwelcome commercial redevelopment, the Audubon-Riverside Neighborhood Association delved into the arcana of the city’s land-use planning process Tuesday night to cast votes in favor of keeping the property residential. Continue reading »

Johnny V’s request splits City Planning Commission, heads to City Council without recommendation

 Posted by at 12:10 am  business, city government, food and drink, neighborhood groups
Sep 142011
 

The proposed Johnny V's on Magazine Street, next door to Monkey Hill Bar (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

A request by the proposed Johnny V’s restaurant to be allowed to open in spite of unauthorized expansions divided the City Planning Commission on Tuesday, sending it to the City Council for a decision with no formal recommendation either way. Continue reading »

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