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Neighbors worry about safety issues around “Lusher hump”

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A raised chunk of concrete on Lowerline Street, scarred and streaked across the top where its scrapes the bottoms of passing cars every day, has earned the nickname the “Lusher hump” from the neighborhood leaders imploring the city to fix it. The issue is the top infrastructure priority of the Central Carrollton Association, whose members even confronted Mayor Mitch Landrieu about it at one of his recent budget hearings. Bill Capo, the action reporter with our partners at WWL-TV, has more:

City officials have told the association that the equipment needed to fix the lump is in the shop.

city government

With Nix library reopened, Carrollton neighbors plan to help beautify it

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Now that the Nix branch library has reopened, its neighbors in the Carrollton area plan to help spruce it up a bit. The library closed in early June because of a serious failure of its air conditioning system, and finally reopened in late September. Soon afterward, Cherri Ainsworth of the Central Carrollton Association spoke to branch manager Damian Lambert about a wish list of improvements that neighbors might be able to help with, and came back with three initial items: a storytelling chair (“a sturdy chair with a whimsical fabric,” was Ainsworth’s precise description), assistance planting several oleander plants, and help rehabilitating several crepe myrtles that have never bloomed. At a meeting last week, the association agreed to all three requests. Board members voted unanimously to spend up to $500 purchasing a chair and having it upholstered, and pledged to help with the plants as well.

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Carrollton neighbors begin seeing details of proposed Costco

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Costco, the warehouse-style wholesale retailer eyeing an old shopping center on South Carrollton as its first Louisiana location, has begun reaching out to area neighborhood groups with its design plans, and so far, the residents like what they see. “I think everyone is pro-Costco,” said John Schackai, chair of the Carrollton Design Review Committee, noting that the store is a work in progress but praising the developers’ willingness to listen to suggestions thus far. The proposed 150,000 square-foot store will require at least three to four more months of planning, Schackai estimated, followed by eight or nine months of construction for an opening in about a year. Costco has already met with a number of neighborhood groups, Schackai told members of the Central Carrollton Association on Tuesday evening, and the mayor’s office seems to be attempting to speed the project to fruition as quickly as possible. Ultimately, the development process for the building will be taking their basic box and adding specific amenities onto it, Schackai said, expressing annoyance that Costco’s development team has yet to include any locals.

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Uptown Neighborhood Association Christmas Parties

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Central Carrollton Association 2011 Officer and Board:

Officers:
President – Barbara Johnson
Vice President Administration – Phyllis Jordan
Vice President Operations – Joe Tucker
Secretary – Robert Demarais Sullivan
Treasurer – Mark Vail

Board:
Michelle Sartor
Paul Baricos
Dorothy Jones
John Pecoul
Larry Lorenz
Mike Ainsworth
Kurt Buchert
John Schackai
Nahum Laventhal
John DeFraites
Barry Kohl