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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2012 5:10:59 GMT
Um, you didn't read my post?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2012 5:42:00 GMT
Yes, I did but you threw in too many bureaucratic conditions. What is the "fair price" of an empty lot where nobody wants to live, for example? Probably no more than 10% of what it originally cost.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2012 5:43:56 GMT
So just saying that it should be a wildlife area with no suggestions about how that might come about makes more sense?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2012 7:29:38 GMT
I just want to be a dictator and improvise according to my whims. ;D
I would consider digging a moat around the whole piece of wild park, though, for a variety of reasons that are not too difficult to imagine -- keeping certain things in, other things (people) out.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2012 12:15:48 GMT
We can pretty much count on the greed factor with a land grab involved happening no matter what. Whether or not our current mayor gets reelected,which he most likely will,and what he may have up his sleeve in terms of development,all remains to be seen. He is far better a choice than previous mayor Ray Nagin,but, has been very disappointing with delivering promises made regarding other political 'hot potato'issues such as the saving of Charity Hospital. He has gone along with the LSU land grab,demolition and development of the MidCity mega medical complex after indicating otherwise during his election campaign. Like other politicians,he talks out of both sides of his mouth. The Wildlife Federation or some like minded environmental agency idea is ideal. The problem is,it's very unlikely to happen. There is simply no profit to be had by doing such a thing,and,that's where the greed factor comes in. It makes too much sense,therefore,it won't happen.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2012 17:05:17 GMT
Casimira, is there any talk of a huge shopping mall or sports arena in the area (or some similar thing that needs a lot of room)? Those places love to take advantage of wastelands.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2012 17:49:02 GMT
I simply cannot imagine that anyone would shell out that kind of money and build something of that magnitude Kerouac in such a precarious location. They would never be able to find insurer's who would be willing to insure it first off.... There's still huge empty areas out in New Orleans East where there was a huge shopping mall that never reopened,then there's the Six Flags space that remains derelict. There is no shortage of open spaces to build those kind of places. I think a land grab would probably go in the direction of some kind of housing complexes for lower income residents,what are known as Section 8 residences. It would be a huge lure for lower income 'baby boomers' who grew up in and around there to begin with.Either that and or a cluster of Senior Citizen centers. The investors would build then cheaply and then sit back and collect the Social Security checks,and whatever else they can suck out of the people that would move there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2012 17:56:20 GMT
I always wonder how expensive it is to raise the elevation of a place. It must be hugely expensive, or else they would do it. At the same time it seems like it could be so simple to bring in landfill and more landfill and even more landfill to put areas out of danger from flooding. "Dirt cheap" must be a totally inaccurate term.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2012 12:22:12 GMT
I always wonder how expensive it is to raise the elevation of a place. It must be hugely expensive, or else they would do it. At the same time it seems like it could be so simple to bring in landfill and more landfill and even more landfill to put areas out of danger from flooding. "Dirt cheap" must be a totally inaccurate term. So it would seem. In this case one has to remember that there are existing structures that remain in place for now,houses and other structures that were rebuilt and refurbished with people living in them.. It would be one thing if the area was completely empty. The Brad Pitt 'Make it Right' ( : houses are very elevated,on stilts. That whole area and most of the expanse of the Metro area is built on landfill to begin with. One of the reasons why we bought where we did,despite the availability of houses and property outside of where we are on the highest ground in the city, is because my husband,who grew up here,and had seen many a flood,emphatically insisted we not live in what was the "back swamp". There were gorgeous houses and properties for sale at the time we were house hunting at very reasonable prices,but,my husband would not be swayed to buy anywhere else. And yes,those gorgeous houses did go under during Katrina.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2012 13:37:31 GMT
During my entire childhood I was always flabbergasted at the swamp houses along the Chef Menteur highway which must be rebuilt from scratch regularly -- after Betsy, after Camille, after Katrina...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2012 0:15:30 GMT
A dear friend of mine did her dissertation on the Lower Ninth Ward,a long, labor of love which involved her traveling to NOLA (from Chicago) 15 times for extended periods over the course of 2 years,filming and writing about the area and one gentleman in particular,the then 89 year old I mentioned who rebuilt his home there,almost single handedly. We had the great pleasure of hosting her and became great friends during and since that time. (She was a student of my husband's childhood friend from NOLA who asked us if we would give her a place to stay for one visit and the rest is history...)/ Anyway,she is now a professor at Florida International University in Miami and has followed up with this gentleman over time. She is coming to NOLA in a few weeks to do a presentation at Loyola University here. I am very excited about her visit as I plan to go with her and visit the Lower Ninth Ward and drive around with Mr. G.,the aforementioned gentleman living there and she. I am sure it will be a more than enlightening visit for both she and myself. Her last visit here was this time last year.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2012 4:44:49 GMT
I saw that Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin are currently filming a science fiction movie in New Orleans: Ender's Game
70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.
I suppose that overgrown ruins or some such are needed somewhere in the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2012 10:23:36 GMT
I wonder if that's the movie being filmed in a big mansion a few blocks from us that's been tying up traffic for weeks now...(I was told it was a sequel to the Exorcist :-Xwhich would make that what 3 or 4 at least, already made?)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2012 16:52:28 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 15, 2012 16:55:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2012 17:12:30 GMT
Depending on whom you talk to, this may or may not be sufficient should" the big one" hit. The other big question is can the pumps handle a vast accumulation of rainfall, many inches in a concentrated amount of time? I see all the pumping stations on the map, but, they never have them all turned on and it's anybodies guess who is manning the pumps, are they alert, awake etc... In other words, would you put your life into the hands of New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board?
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 17, 2020 21:27:59 GMT
After all this time, what is the current situation?
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