Lafitte Greenway project gets underway after years of planning The Lafitte corridor was once a shipping canal built in the mid-18th century. Now, it will become a bicycle and pedestrian path called ...

NEW ORLEANS -- If you build it, they will come? For now that is what a portion of Mid-City is starting to look like as the Lafitte Greenway Project inches closer to completion. The bike and pedestrian ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Drive between the French Quarter and Mid-City and it isn't hard to miss, construction crews working hard to complete the Lafitte Greenway. But there is a big eyesore next door, and the ...

Coastal restoration funds announced recently by Gov. John Bel Edwards include about $23 million for the Lafitte area, which is making headway on the jigsaw puzzle of ring levees designed to keep ...

Friends of Lafitte Corridor, the nonprofit group behind the extensive city project, announced last week that construction workers have begun work, marking the start of what's expected to be an ...

A $15 million permit has been issued for construction of a 100,000-square-foot apartment complex for low-income senior citizens at 700 N. Galvez St. The building is part of a $148 million ...

The Housing Authority of New Orleans will soon be ready to move forward with the third phase of the Faubourg Lafitte housing project redevelopment. Rendering courtesy of HANO The agency recently ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Southeast of the town of Jean Lafitte, contractors for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have converted open water into near 1,200 acres of new marsh. The Upper ...

Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My Account to verify and manage your account. An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an ...

More than 10,000 miles of canals dredged largely by the oil and gas industry crisscross Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, eating away at the state’s fragile coast, but over the decades only 35 miles have ...