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Nucor to begin construction in Convent after gaining air permit
Nucor Corp. says it will begin construction immediately on the first phase of its iron and steelmaking project in St. James Parish. Charlotte, N.C.-based Nucor says the way was cleared by the issuance...
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Roofers accidentally responsible for Space Walk warehouse fire in Kenner
The huge fire that destroyed more than $1 million in property at a Space Walk warehouse in Kenner started when roofers created sparks that accidentally ignited some of the inflatable birthday party...
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St. Bernard multifamily-housing battle opens new front
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development files complaint For five years, St. Bernard Parish has been enbroiled in a debate over housing ordinances that critics and a federal judge allege are...
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Litter takes toll on Louisiana tourism, Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne says
Statewide volunteer program to help clean up the state and reduce litter Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne said this week that he wants the state to take the problem of litter more seriously. In a speech to the...
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River Birch deal with Jefferson Parish was rushed, unusual, 3 parish...
The employees say they were baffled by the sense of urgency in approving the contract Jefferson Parish Finance Director Gwen Bolotte was "startled" in June of 2009 when her supervisor assured the...
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Gretna hopes designated area is key to day-laborer issues
Place for contractors seeking laborers aimed at increasing safety, reducing traffic woes The City of Gretna on Monday starts on a new approach to the issue of day laborers who cluster in one part of...
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Snow, bad weather cancel Dardenne's tourism promotional trip to New York
BATON ROUGE -- A major winter storm has derailed Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne's first major tourism promotion trip to New York City, so he will be touting Louisiana's virtues to the national media from Baton...
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New Orleans property owners can expect 'substantial change' in assessments
Anyone expecting this year's citywide reassessment of property values to result in a substantial increase in the city's overall tax base could be disappointed, Assessor Erroll Williams told a New...
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Plan for high-rise at Canal and Rampart streets will go to historic landmarks...
Proposal is for a residential, office, parking and retail building in the long-vacant Woolworth's store At the request of New Orleans City Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer, developers hoping to...
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Reader comment: Glut of condo space in New Orleans means developers shouldn't...
Responding to Bruce Eggler's story "Plan for high-rise at Canal and Rampart streets will go to historic landmarks panel," reader apollinaire commented in part: The Times-Picayune archive "... (T)he...
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New Orleans new Tax Fairness Commission meets for the first time Thursday
A blue-ribbon panel charged with recommending ways to make New Orleans' property and sales taxes fairer meets tomorrow for the first time. Rusty Costanza / The Times-Picayune archiveNew Orleans Mayor...
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Jefferson Parish Council extends consulting contracts, but only for one year
Parish President John Young had objected to two-year renewals In an apparent compromise with Jefferson Parish President John Young, the Parish Council extended two consulting contracts Wednesday for...
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New Orleans' official 2010 census population is 343,829, agency reports
Jefferson is Louisiana's second-most populous parish; St. Tammany shows strong growth Five years after Hurricane Katrina emptied New Orleans and prompted the largest mass migration in modern American...
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N.O. Tax Fairness Commission begins rethinking property taxes
A blue ribbon panel charged with recommending ways to make the city's tax base broader and fairer began its work Thursday, with one topic commanding more early attention than others: re-thinking the...
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River Birch launches new volley in Jefferson Parish landfill debate
The Times-Picayune archiveRiver Birch landfill River Birch Inc. opened a new front Thursday in its effort to sway public opinion in the Jefferson Parish landfill debate. The company placed a full-page...
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New Orleans real estate records are fully restored and verified, court...
Court clerk says she still wants to do a complete review of all of the records in her databases back to 1987 A little more than three months after a disastrous computer crash brought the real estate...
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Senate shoots down attempt to end set of oil industry tax breaks
The oil and gas industry, which beat back new regulatory bills even during the worst days of last year's massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scored another victory this week. The Senate voted...
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Many Kenner businesses lack occupational licenses, resident charges
City promises to look into enforecement Municipal administrators agreed to look into the enforcement of occupational licenses after a resident told the City Council Thursday that he thinks thousands...
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Noisy carwashes get the attention of the Jefferson Parish Council
Council blocks any new stand-alone carwashes from locating within 150 feet of a neighborhood Saturdays are the worst part of living directly behind an automated carwash, according to Mary and Mike...
View ArticleWhile Florida development emptied, Warehouse District has been booming
Even though population swings largely can be traced to the level of post-Katrina flooding, changes also hinged on where each neighborhood was headed before the storm. Before the nearby Industrial...
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