Mid-City bittersweet
Posted by Muffuletta
Georgia company planning to redevelop Mid-City area
A Georgia development company has been quietly working to assemble a vast swath of Mid-City, including the Lindy Boggs Medical Center, to create a nearly contiguous 20-acre site for 1.2 million square feet of retail space for national chains that until now have been unable to find a home inside the city.
File under love/hate. This would be the area bounded by Liuzza’s, Parkway Bakery, American Can and supermarket row on N. Carrollton. In the past I’ve dissed megadevelopments like this and the car traffic they cause, and wished people could walk through pleasant neighborhoods to shop at independent little stores and so on… but I find it significant that national-level investors are interested in this area that’s huffing and puffing to come back. According to one of the marketing people quoted in the Picayune article, “‘New Orleans has been on the radar (of national retailers) for a long time,’ and the storm has made land available.”
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