New Orleans Community Support Foundation and the Community Support Organization
New Orleans, Louisiana
Frameworks for rebuilding three districts--downtown and the French Quarter; Gentilly; and the neighborhoods of Desire-Florida, St. Roch-St. Claude, and Bywater-Marigny--as part of the citywide Unified New Orelans Plan.
Recognition:
- International Downtown Association--Merit Award in Planning for District 7 (2007)
Project Highlights:
- Goody Clancy led planning for recovery and revitalization in downtown New Orleans and other central neighborhoods covering roughly 20 square miles of the city. Our plans--created in collaboration with racially, economically, and ethnically disparate communities--gained strong community support.
- The planning process, completed in January 2007, prompted formation of a planning committee in each of the three districts—a first for New Orleans—to ensure that the spirit as well as letter of the plans moves forward.
- Plan elements for downtown include replacing public housing and parking lots with a mixed-income, mixed-use community of more than 5,000 people—roguhly doubling the district's pre-Katrina population--and a series of innovative steps to support an emerging creative economy. In Desire-Florida, a 4,000-unit mixed-income community would rise on the site of public housing and adjacent devastated areas. Strategies for Gentilly include creation of a lively new town square and rebuilding neighborhood-serving commercial centers.