By Deon Roberts, Online Editor
It looks like the downtown jazz park project is on the back burner — the way back burner.
Strategic Hotels & Resorts is selling the Hyatt Regency New Orleans hotel, slated to be a big part of the project, which was announced post-Katrina with much fanfare. Strategic CEO Laurence Geller has complained of lack of help from the state and city for his project.
I’m sure many people will be disappointed that the 20-acre performance arts park anchored by a National Jazz Center seems to be dead in the water.
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JPK New Orleans // Friday, October 19, 2007 at 10:55 pm |
This is just more evidence of how our city and state let great ideas get away. Mr. Geller invested a significant amount of money in the proposal, considering the fact that he had Thomas Mayne actually draw up preliminary plans for the park and detailed architectural plans for the museum and center.
What is our city doing? NOTHING