Child, woman killed in Central City birthday party shooting
The staggering low point of a day in which nine people were shot in New Orleans came at mid-afternoon, when a five-year-old girl and another innocent bystander were left mortally wounded outside a...
View ArticleSolar Panels Crop Up in New Orleans Development
A new development of affordable housing in Central City, a neighborhood plagued by blight and abandoned houses, is seeing a flourishing of solar panels. The Times-Picayune reports that residents in the...
View ArticleCafé Reconcile Reopens Next Week
One of New Orleans’ favorite restaurants is reopening next week. Café Reconcile will be bigger, and able to train even more young people in restaurant operations.
View ArticleWeekly LaSalle Market Bringing Business Back To Central City
New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood was once a stronghold of rich cultural traditions and bustling local businesses. While the arts remain vibrant within this tight community, the area has suffered...
View ArticleDeal Closed To Buy Land For Central City Retail Center
Developers have closed a $2.1 million deal to buy property that will be part of plans for a $24 million retail center in New Orleans' Central City neighborhood. The New Orleans Advocate reports that a...
View ArticleNew Grocery Store Takes Shape In Central City
New Orleans officials have gotten a look at a new grocery store coming in Central City. A celebration marked the final roof bracket being installed at the former Myrtle Banks School on Oretha Castle...
View ArticleWith Memories Of A Bustling Past Still Fresh, O.C. Haley Blvd. Slowly Coming...
Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in Central City has recently seen a lot of redevelopment. This Monday, the new location of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum opens its doors. Other large-scale...
View ArticleSouthern Food And Beverage Museum Cuts Ribbon On A New Building
Everything about the Southern Food and Beverage Museum is a tribute to the legacy of food in southern states — even its physical building. Architect Jonathan Tate says the new SOFAB building took on a...
View ArticleFor Businesses On O.C Haley Blvd. There Is More At Stake Than Commerce
There have been several ribbon-cutting ceremonies lately on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, and more are on the way. The community-based revitalization plan for the commercial corridor, driven by...
View ArticleTulane City Center's Maurice Cox On Adaptive Reuse And Creative Resurgence...
This week WWNO has been exploring Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard. The Central City corridor is home to new nonprofits and business ventures, after a redevelopment effort of more than a decade. Today we...
View ArticleHarmony Neighborhood Development Revitalizes The La Salle Corridor
Harmony Neighborhood Development focuses on the revitalization of Central City New Orleans. By eliminating blight, constructing high-quality homes, providing homeownership services, and developing...
View ArticleA New Museum To Celebrate Southern Food (And You Can Eat The Exhibits)
The Southern Food and Beverage Museum. Of course. It sounds so inevitable, you might assume it's existed since time immemorial: a museum to celebrate the food and drink of the American South, to...
View Article'Above Canal: Rights and Revival' Explores New Orleans' Civil Rights Legacy...
The art show “Above Canal: Rights and Revival” honors New Orleans' Civil Rights Movement legacy with archival photos of local actions, activists and leaders. This history is explored alongside...
View ArticleLouisiana Eats! Moves To The Fabulous SoFAB
Big news on this week’s Louisiana Eats! We move into our new studios, located in the Southern Food and Beverage Museum on Oretha Castle Haley in Central City. SoFAB, as the museum is affectionately...
View ArticleYAYA Opens New Arts Center In Central City
For the past 27 years, Young Aspirations/Young Artists — or YAYA — has provided free arts and entrepreneurship classes for young people in New Orleans. Now the group has a new Arts Center on LaSalle...
View ArticleWhere Y'Eat: At Roux Carre, a food court fulfilling more than an appetite
In its natural habitat of shopping malls and concourses, the food court is set up for convenience and speed, offering a spread of ready options. Transport the idea of a food court to a particular New...
View ArticleLouisiana Eats Meets The Neighbors On Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
It's hard to believe that it has been a whole year since we moved our Louisiana Eats! studio into the Southern Food and Beverage Museum . On this week's show, we celebrate this one-year anniversary by...
View ArticleWhere Y'Eat: Feeling the Slow Burn in Central City
The restaurant Primitivo is turning heads with some very old techniques in the kitchen, making this restaurant writer reassess some assumptions and, along the way, drawing more attention to a...
View ArticleWhere Y'Eat: Dig In at a Different Sort of Food Court
Roux Carre is a new food court in Central City, conceived and managed by the nonprofit Good Work Network as a project to help more women and minorities stake a claim in the growing New Orleans...
View ArticleEyes on the Prize: Movement Moments from a Civil Rights Activist
The March on Washington, the bus boycotts, and sit-ins across the country: these are all images of the civil rights movement that we may familiar with. What may be less obvious are the turning points...
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