Economic blight is the visible and physical decline of a property, neighborhood, or city due to a combination of economic stagnation, population decline with residents and businesses leaving the area,seculardecline inreal incomes, and the cost of maintaining the quality of older structures. These fa...
Unlike a Neighborhood Improvement District, a CID is a separate legal entity, and is distinct and apart from the municipality that creates the district. A CID is, however, created by ordinance of the governing body of the municipality in which the CID is located, and may have other direct o...
Being led into the Ouachita is one of the most vivid memories of my young life. One Sunday, as soon as the church service concluded on a final round ofAmens, we all marched blocks down to the riverbank. The Mothers walked alongside us and sang hymns; and as we neared our salvation sp...
Makeup refers to cosmetics applied to enhance facial features, while a makeover is a comprehensive transformation or redesign of appearance. Both can elevate aesthetics but vary in scope.
Mixed-use communities are becoming commonplace, as residential, retail and public transportation spaces are located within the same neighborhood. Today’s planners are also designing cities with pedestrian and bike areas linking residential, work and retail spaces. This minimizes pollution from transportati...
If you support a cause, there is a colored light bulb for you. Have you seen these colors in your neighborhood? Every year at Christmas I change out all the floodlightsaround myhouseto blue lights. I like the warm blue glow, instead of the traditional red, green, and white. ...
If you support a cause, there is a colored light bulb for you. Have you seen these colors in your neighborhood? Every year at Christmas I change out all the floodlightsaround myhouseto blue lights. I like the warm blue glow, instead of the traditional red, green, and white. ...
weren’t even issuing statements. It was mystifying because as someone who had a workaday exposure to the project, I thought: there has to be a counterpoint to what was being implied here. The stories made it sound like it was this crumbling favela of a neighborhood, whi...
New Orleans Restoration Properties’ Missionis to contribute to the Revitalization of Historic Neighborhoods by providing high quality new and restored properties for consumers and stakeholders to participate in neighborhood redevelopment through purchasing and renting of formerly blighted or underutilized proper...
arts center. Dating back to 1901, the old warehouse had a quintessentially industrial, albeit worn-down, frame and precious longleaf pine timber from forests that were wiped in the building boom of the 1900s. Now, the neighborhood has one less blighted building and one more cultural ...