Grand Opening of New Walgreens Marquee Store on Magazine Street
Magazine St. Frontage
NEW ORLEANS, LA – March 21, 2013 – Stirling Properties is pleased to announce the grand opening of a new full-service, Walgreens drugstore in New Orleans on historic Magazine Street. The new Walgreens is a full renovation of the former American Legion building located at 5518 Magazine Street. The 13,000 square-foot marquee store will have a drive-thru window, full-service pharmacy and a Look Boutique that will specialize in high-end cosmetics. The store will open at 8 a.m. Friday, March 22 with a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony at 10 a.m.
The site is the original home of the Ed Brauner American Legion Post #307 and portions of the building date back to 1947. The design of the new building was achieved after numerous meetings with our design team, local retailers, area residents and the City of New Orleans. The front and rear facades of the building were replaced and the interior fully demolished. The new design features large windows to showcase the building’s interior, a pedestrian entrance on Magazine Street, and a rear parking lot with a drive-thru window. To pay homage to war veterans and the building’s former use as a meeting spot for them, several American Legion images and symbols were incorporated into the new design.
“This adaptive reuse project represents a true cooperative effort between Stirling Properties, Walgreens, the City of New Orleans, local retailers, and surrounding neighborhoods. Without public input and citizen participation we could never have achieved this level of success. We are proud to bring a once distressed but historically significant property back to prominence once again”, said Peter Aamodt, Vice President of Development for Stirling Properties.
Stirling Properties has a long-standing relationship with the retailer. Construction is currently underway on two other Stirling Properties Walgreens developments located in Terrytown on the Westbank of New Orleans, and on Pass Road in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Stirling Properties Celebrates Team Members at Annual Stirling Honors Event
On Friday, March 15, Stirling Properties recognized employees and commercial agents at the company’s annual Stirling Honors meeting and recognition luncheon at Tchefuncta Country Club in Covington. Along with the introduction of Stirling’s newly-formed Stewardship Committee, the 610 Stompers performed and Brett Patron, Executive Director of the 610 Stompers, discussed their journey as an entertainment group to a 501 (c) (3) charity. Stirling Properties’ Commercial Brokerage Division presented the award for Top Commercial Agent and Most Transactions to Rhonda Sharkawy, Senior Retail Leasing and Development Executive in the New Orleans office. Scott Macdonald, Sales and Leasing Executive in the Baton Rouge office, received the award for Most Improved, for having the highest production level improvement over the previous year. Other award recipients received recognition for production levels based on individual 2012 production achievements. Also recognized were:
- Ruby Award 2012:
Rhonda Sharkawy – New Orleans Office
- Emerald Award 2012:
Gaines Seaman – Metairie Office
Scott Macdonald – Baton Rouge Office
- Diamond Award 2012:
Ryan Lang – New Orleans Office
Joe Kramer – Covington Office
- Platinum Award 2012:
Ryan Pecot – Lafayette Office
Will Barrois – Covington Office
- Gold Award 2012:
Charles Cornay – Lafayette Office
Beezie Landry – Covington Office
Lee de la Houssaye – Covington Office
- Silver Award 2012:
Anne Dixon – Shreveport Office
Rick Skelding – New Orleans Office
- Bronze Award 2012:
Dottie Tarleton – Baton Rouge Office
Joe Gardner – New Orleans Office
John Arthurs – New Orleans Office
Mike Immel – Lafayette Office
Roger Bajon – Covington Office
Beth Cristina – New Orleans Office
Stirling Properties also recognized employees and agents who achieved special anniversaries with the company. Awards were given to 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 year milestones.
- 30 Years: Grady Brame, Executive Vice President – Covington Office
- 25 Years: Ben Hocke, Senior Project Manager – New Orleans Office
- 20 Years: Henry Holmes, Joseph Lee and Harold Staub, Engineers – New Orleans Office
For more information on how to donate to or request an appearance from the 610 Stompers, visit www.610Stompers.com.
Mid-City Market – March Update
Below, please find a series of photos showing site progress conditions from the week of March 4, 2013.
Since last month’s update, we have moved forward rapidly in the site and building construction at Mid-City Market. At Winn-Dixie, the roof has fully dried in which allows us to release significant interior work including drywall, sheathing, and mechanical/electrical work. We have completed exterior brick work on approximately two-thirds of the building. Currently, we are moving on to the main front entry of the building and will begin to prepare the parking area for paving in the next four weeks.
At the former retail building we are renovating, we have completed the exterior wall stucco, interior wall framing, and the exterior masonry on the front of the building. Before the end of the month, we will begin paving work at the parking area in front of the building. We will be turning both this building and the Pei Wei building over to tenants for their interior buildouts at the beginning of April. The two small-shop buildings fronting N. Carrollton are progressing quickly as well. Roofing work on these buildings is currently being completed. Additionally, the block wall around the street front buildings on the entire site are being poured and formed. Over the next month, we will be working on the courtyards, sidewalks, and storefronts of these buildings, which will be turned over to tenants for their interior buildouts in May.
Masonry of Winn-Dixie Building – 3/7/2013
Masonry going up on Retail Building C – 3/7/2013
Pei Wei Building / Block Wall Construction – 3/7/2013
Aerial of Mid-City Market Under Construction – 3/6/2013
Aerial of Mid-City Market Under Construction – 3/6/2013
Walgreens on Magazine – Update 3/11/13
Magazine St. Frontage
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 setup. This is a big week and the push is on. By early next week we will have all of our final inspections done and the store opening team will be setting up for a store opening and ribbon cutting.
Hammond Square: Cars, Wine, and Photobooths added up to success
On a very cold Wednesday night, our first annual Lover’s Lane event was a huge success thanks to the many local vendors, car owners and organizations willing to brave the elements! Hammond Square had 40 Classic Cars lined up on Palace Drive outside of businesses from Cato to Menchie’s. There were over 100 people from Hammond and the surrounding area bundled up, but still in the mood to gather with friends and loved ones and revel in the oldies music, classic cars, wine tastings and a warm photo booth. If you are wondering if people enjoyed the photo booth, you can check out the pictures on the Hammond Square Facebook page as proof they did! We went through three cases of wine that night and the bottle selections made by Red, White and Brew seemed to fit the event just right.
Multiple tenants reported increased sales the night of the event. The restaurants were the biggest benefactors as the car owners and event patrons stepped in the heated spaces for dinner and snacks. Increasing traffic to our tenants is an added benefit of these events!
A Tenant Team Spirit award went to Maurices for their great participation in the event. They had live models in their store windows, passed out coupons during the event, and even let their employees try out the photo booth! A close second was the newest tenant at Hammond Square, Obsession. With a new owner, new merchandise and new management, the store passed out cupcakes and provided a sneak peak of all the fabulous clothing they will have available starting in March when they open.
There were some items that could have been improved. After the event I had many people tell me that they did not know about it. We heavily utilized Facebook, e-mail and other online media as our main promoting tools. We had one banner and three small landscape signs on site. Hammond Square is now an open air shopping center instead of an enclosed mall so we lose some of the reach impact that one or two major entrances can prove helpful for.
Because of this observation, signage for the next event will be placed at every entrance. We feel this may reach the crowd that doesn’t check in electronically on a regular basis, but does shop at the Square.
So what is next? Apart from our regularly scheduled Tangi Humane Society pet adoptions on the last day of every month; there is an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 30th! The Golden Oldie Motor Club decided to hold their big Children’s Hospital fundraiser at Hammond Square in the lot by Nagoya and Albasha on the same day as the Hunt. We are taking the success from Lover’s Lane and making this an all-day event for the entire family with the Easter Egg Hunt on Palace Drive starting at 9:30 am and the Car Show participant registration going from 8:00 am – Noon. Hammond Square can only take the credit for the Easter Egg Hunt. Most of the work for this event is done by the Golden Oldies Motor Club who will even have a Kid’s Choice winner for the vehicle picked to be the coolest by the younger judges.
By Hammond Square slowly becoming known for being a social meeting area and tool for the community, we hope that it promotes a general feeling of community throughout Tangipahoa and the surrounding Parishes. As the Square becomes more active with new tenants and with even more successful existing tenants, we hope it will be used as a tool to show how Hammond is growing and changing in the right direction. Shop local. Shop Tangi!
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 the next work tasks in line. The rear of the store is complete except for the installation of the windows, rear entry canopy work, final painting on fence and landscaping.
Things are happening fast, stay tuned for more soon!
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