Clearview Mall’s Breakfast with Santa Raises Money for The Children’s Hospital of New Orleans
Metairie, Louisiana (December 14, 2011) – Clearview Mall, managed and leased by Stirling Properties, raised $630 for the Children’s Hospital of New Orleans with their Breakfast with Santa held Saturday December 10, 2011.
Clearview Mall partnered with Zea Rotisserie and Grill to provide a private breakfast for approximately 135 children and their parents to celebrate the holidays. Along with a plated breakfast there was face painting, games, storytelling and a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus. Giveaways included Christmas decorated candied apples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory for the kids and glass mugs titled “Breakfast with Santa Clearview Mall 2011,” engraved by Cupid’s Engravings, for the parents. (more…)
Retail/Commercial Component of Columbia Parc at the Bayou District
Columbia Parc at the Bayou District
Stirling Properties is serving as a consultant for Columbia Parc at the Bayou District and we recently completed a report commissioned by the Bayou District Foundation in New Orleans for the development of the retail and commercial component for the master-planned, mixed use community. The report includes an inventory of existing resources and conditions, identification of retail tenants, preliminary design and programming, identification of funding sources, development budgets, construction timelines, and recommendations on a go-forward strategy. We believe that re-development and re-population of former neighborhoods like St. Bernard will be crucial to the continued recovery of the City of New Orleans and we are pleased to be able to contribute to such a worthy project.
Retail and commercial businesses are a vital and essential component of any mixed-use residential development. The area surrounding the new Columbia Parc development has been historically underserved from a retail perspective. Numerous opportunities exist for retailers willing to locate in this emerging and underserved area and our response from national and local prospects alike has been very positive.
Columbia Parc at the Bayou District is a new $440 million mixed-income redevelopment of the former St. Bernard housing project located on St. Bernard Avenue near I-110 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Since groundbreaking in 2008, the Bayou District Foundation, together with Columbia Residential, has created 515 high quality new mixed-income housing units (of a planned 1,325). One of the largest and most successful urban renewal projects in the United States, the Bayou District has earned nationwide acclaim for its forward-thinking development approach and innovation. A part of the Bayou Foundation’s vision is the development of retail and commercial presence on a 6 acre tract fronting St. Bernard Avenue to serve the residents as well as the entire community.
Related Article from New Orleans CityBusiness “Redeveloped St. Bernard Project Tries to Surpass Community It Was Modeled After”
Stirling Unveils New Websites for Hammond Square and Pan American Life Center
Stirling Properties is excited to unveil new websites for Hammond Square in Hammond, Louisiana and Pan American Life Center in New Orleans.
Rendering of Walgreens on Magazine Street
Stirling Properties is renovating the old American Legion Hall located at 5518 Magazine Street in New Orleans into a new Walgreens Drug Store. Demolition on the site will begin in November with construction slated to begin during January of 2012. The new store is scheduled to open summer 2012.
5518 Magazine Street – Before & After
New Orleans’ Growing Medical Corridor
The growing medical corridor in New Orleans is officially known as BioDistrict New Orleans, a state-enabled economic development district that was created by the State of Louisiana in 2005 for the purpose of developing a biosciences industry in New Orleans that will provide research and development, healthcare delivery, and stable, high-paying jobs. The 1,500-acre district spans the Downtown and Mid-City neighborhoods of New Orleans. The economic impact is estimated to be 22,000 new jobs in the city of New Orleans over the next eight to ten years, not only in biosciences, but also in banking, law, construction and other service industries that stand to benefit. The area’s major developments include:
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Project Legacy)
- Status: Under Construction
- Groundbreaking/Completion: June 2011/Late 2014, full activation 2015
- Site: 30 acres bounded by Tulane Avenue and Canal, S. Galvez & S. Rocheblave Streets
- Size: 1.6 million square feet with 2 additional 1,000-car garages; 200-bed complex will serve over 70,000 enrolled Veterans
- Cost: $995 million construction budget (fully funded)
- Jobs: 1,100 new employees
- University Medical Center
- Status: Site preparation work, construction to begin by year end
- Groundbreaking/Completion: April 2011/2015
- Site: 34 acres bounded by Canal & S. Galvez Streets and Tuland & South Claiborne Avenues
- Size: 2.2 million square feet, 424-bed public hospital to replace Charity Hospital
- Cost: $1.09 billion; state lawmakers approved funding September 2011
- Jobs: 5,280 new and saved jobs over first five years
- Part of collaborative complex with the new VA Medical Center (see above)
- Both will be key academic anchors for LSU, Tulane, Dillard, Xavier, SUNO, Delgado, and others throughout South Louisiana
- Louisiana Cancer Research Center
- Status: Under Construction
- Groundbreaking/Completion: April 2009/January 2012
- Site: Tulane & South Claiborne Avenues
- Size: Shared 175,000 square-foot, 10-story facility
- Cost: $90 million
- Developed by the Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium, a partnership among LSU Health Sciences Center, Tulane Univerity, Xavier University of Louisiana, and Ochsner Health System
- New Orleans BioInnovation Center
- Status: Open & Operating
- Completed: June 2011
- Site: 1441 Canal Street
- Size: 66,000 square feet of state-of-the-art wet-lab, office and conference space
- Cost: $47 million
- To house biotech and life sciences entrepreneurs and startups, as well as support research at four area universities; housing about 200 employees from 80 companies at full capacity
- Critical link that turns university research into privately commercializable enterprises
- Five biotech start-ups and two venture captial firms have already moved into the building, and twelve more are on the way
- Ochsner Health System
- Relocating 500 to 750 employees to the CBD during the 1st Quarter 2012
- Moving executive, corporate and business functions (no medical care)
- 80,000 square feet on top 4 floors of the Benson Tower (enough room to grow to 1,000 employees)
- Signifies Ochsner’s growing presence in the local economy and New Orleans’ medical hub
For exciting leasing opportunities in the heart of this growing medical corridor, office spaces are available at the 1615 Poydras Street office building located directly across from the Superdome. Available spaces range from approximately 1,500 to 45,130 contiguous square feet. For more information contact Gaines Seaman at (504) 620-8187 or gseaman@stirlingprop.com.
Stirling Properties Awarded Contract for Facilities Management of all First Bank and Trust Branch Locations
COVINGTON, Louisiana —- (October 25, 2011) Stirling Properties has been awarded a contract to provide comprehensive facilities management for all First Bank and Trust branch locations in Louisiana and Mississippi. The contract, effective on November 1, 2011, also includes the First Bank and Trust headquarters at the First Bank and Trust Tower located on 909 Poydras Street in New Orleans. Founded in 1991, First Bank and Trust is a New Orleans based bank with over $925 million in assets. (more…)
