Walgreens on Magazine – Update 3/11/13

Last full week of work at the Magazine Street Walgreens in New Orleans and it is a flurry of activity inside and out.  With one week left, both the Contractor and Walgreens have their work cut out for them, including finishing the front sidewalk and canopy, landscaping and painting the exterior and all the interior shelve stocking and …

Walgreens on Magazine – Update 3/4/13

The building is humming with activity.  At this point Walgreens has been inside the building for almost three weeks setting up shelving and placing fixtures inside the store in anticipation of the late March opening.  The scaffolding has been removed from the front of the building and the new sidewalk work and front canopy is …

Mid-City Market – February Update

Since last month’s update, we have moved forward rapidly in the site and building construction at Mid-City Market in New Orleans.  At Winn-Dixie, we have finished standing the exterior walls, begun sheeting the walls, have set the roof curbs, and finished installing the re-steel.  We have set masonry along the rear wall on the N. …

Mid-City Market – January Update

Since last month’s update, we have moved forward rapidly in the site and building construction at Mid-City Market.  At Winn-Dixie, despite the rainy weather, we have poured almost all of the concrete slab for the building with the remainder to be poured this week.  We have constructed two of the exterior load bearing metal stud …

Stirling Properties to Develop Full-Service Walgreens Drugstore on New Orleans Westbank

Stirling Properties is pleased to announce the development of a new full-service Walgreens drugstore in Terrytown, Louisiana on the Westbank of New Orleans.  The proposed Walgreens will be located at the intersection of Terry Parkway and Carol Sue Avenue on the site of the former A&P Grocery/Eckerd Drug anchored shopping center.   The new store will …

Walgreens on Magazine – Update 12/26/12

With the holidays upon us, Magazine Street is buzzing and so is the Walgreens construction site. The interior work now revolves around finalizing all the sheetrock work, floor preparation for italian tile, electrical services and the placement of the American Legion Medallion Logo. When we first looked at the development of this building it was clear from the …

Mid-City Market – December Update

We have moved forward rapidly in the site and building construction at Mid-City Market in New Orleans.  At Winn-Dixie, structural steel arrived on site and we have erected the standing up columns and joist girders within the interior footprint of the 53,000 square-foot building.  We have completed underground plumbing and electrical work in all the areas …

Walgreens on Magazine – Update 12/6/12

Both interior and exterior work are progressing at a good pace this month.  As the photo indicates the address precast stone was placed at the roofline just this week and the brick veneer on Magazine Street is nearly complete.  This will be striking when the scaffolding is removed and when all the fine stucco detail work is …

East Coast, West Coast…Emergence of the Third Coast

I wanted to share this recently published article, “The Rise of the Third Coast,” by Joel Kotkin, an internationally-recognized researcher and author on global, economic, political and social trends.  In the piece, Kotkin describes the “Third Coast,” in large part driven by a “resurgent New Orleans” region, as “one of the major forces in twenty-first-century America.” …