New Orleans: A City for Entrepreneurs

The “Big Three” cities for entrepreneurship—San Francisco/San Jose, Boston and New York—all have a high cost of living, which can be difficult on a startup budget. Resultantly, entrepreneurs are starting to look elsewhere. Enter post-Katrina New Orleans. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita allowed one of America’s most historic places to reimage itself as a startup city …

Stirling Properties Announces New Tenants to Offices at Mid-City Market in New Orleans

Stirling Properties is pleased to announce new tenants Sola Salon and Billes Partners to the Offices at Mid-City Market in New Orleans, Louisiana. Billes Partners–a planning, project development, architecture, interior design, and graphic design firm–will occupy roughly 3,000 square feet and plans to open by early-March 2016. Sola Salon Studios, a 4,295-square-foot franchise hair salon plans to open this …

Stirling Properties Names Saban Sellers As Sales and Leasing Executive

Stirling Properties is pleased to announce Saban Sellers as Sales and Leasing Executive for its Commercial Brokerage Division in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sellers will work from the company’s New Orleans Office located at 615 Baronne Street, Ste 100. Prior to joining Stirling Properties, Sellers began his career in commercial real estate in 2014 working for …

First Tenant Opens at the Offices at Mid-City Market in New Orleans

Additional Tenant Announcements Coming Soon Stirling Properties is excited to announce the opening of the first tenant at Offices at Mid-City Market, a 54,000 square foot, mixed-use complex in the burgeoning Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans. Orangetheory Fitness, a fitness studio that specializes in hour-long group interval training workouts, has opened their first Louisiana location …

Coastal Revenue Sharing: A Letter to the Editor

As chairman of the Coalition for Coastal Resilience and Economy (CCRE), which was formed last year under the umbrella of Greater New Orleans, Inc. (GNO Inc.), our primary mission is to use our business led coalition to ensure that the funds earmarked for coastal restoration are used for that intended purpose. While there are many …

New Orleans’ Office Market Taking Shape

Gaines Seaman, Sales and Leasing Executive for Stirling Properties, recently contributed an article for Southeast Real Estate Business magazine’s Market Highlight section.  The insightful article, entitled “Following Massive Conversions, New Orleans’ Office Market Is Taking Shape,” profiles the bustling office market activity in downtown New Orleans. Check out the excerpt below and click here to read the full …

New Orleans Named Among 2016 Markets to Watch

At the recent Urban Land Institute (ULI) Fall Meeting held in San Francisco, the keynote speaker Andy Warren of PwC presented the Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2016. This year’s release marks the 37th edition of the Emerging Trends in Real Estate®, which is undertaken jointly by PwC and ULI based on insights from hundreds of …

Tsunami Sushi Coming to Pan American Life Center in New Orleans

First Tenant Announced for First Floor Conversion to Retail & Restaurant Space Stirling Properties is excited to announce the addition of Tsunami Sushi to Pan American Life Center, located at 601 Poydras Street in New Orleans’ Central Business District. Pan American Life Center, a premier Class-A office building located at the prominent corner of Poydras …

Stirling Properties Welcomes Thomas Bryan to the New Orleans Team

Stirling Properties is pleased to announce the addition of Thomas Bryan to the Commercial Brokerage Division as Sales and Leasing Executive. Thomas will work from the company’s New Orleans, LA office located at 615 Baronne Street, Suite 100. Mr. Bryan began his Commercial Real Estate career in 2007 and has since accrued a wealth of …

President’s Message: Reflection, Rebirth, Resiliency

Next week, we will pause to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. From the shock, disbelief and uncertainty in the days, weeks and months that followed, Southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast have persevered. New Orleans has risen up from the brink of death to emerge, as it once had been, into one of …