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Filter Responses Displaying 60 of 60 respondents Crosstab Responses Download Responses Response Type: Collector: Normal Response 2012 Cultural District Annual Report Share Responses (Web Link) Custom Value: IP Address: empty 98.164.74.217 Response Started: Response Modified: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 5:03:51 AM Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:27:24 AM

1. Name of Cultural District:

Lafitte Greenway Cultural District

2. Contact Information for person completing this report on behalf of the local governing authority (in case further clarification is needed):

Name: - Mark Venczel/Annalisa Kelly Company/Organization: - Friends of Lafitte Corridor City/Town: - New Orleans, LA Email Address: - [email protected] Phone Number: - 504-352-7554

3. ACCOMPLISHMENTS~ List accomplishments in the district during the past year. Information should include marketing efforts; special events; organizational meetings; status of renovations; volunteer projects; infrastructure improvements; opportunities for artists; crime rate; etc. (Use as many lines as needed)

1. - Broad Community Connections (BCC) announced plans to open a Whole Foods as well as a mixed-use development to promote healthy living in the former Schwegmann’s grocery building (300 N. Broad St. at Bienville) through its ReFresh initiative. The project will receive $1 million in funds from the city’s Fresh Food Retailer Initiative, which aims to increase access to fresh foods in under-served neighborhoods, as well as $900,000 from the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA). As part of its Iconic Signs artistic and economic revitalization project, Broad Community Connections also installed four lighted signs for businesses on Broad St designed by local artists. The project was guided in part by The Arts Council of New Orleans and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and other sources. The project aims to focus on artistic installation as well as economic development for businesses on Broad Street while also highlighting the history of the corridor and its iconic signs. 2. - Tulane University opened the Ruth U. Fertel/Tulane Community Health Center and Brinton Family Health & Healing Center, a neighborhood-based health care facility built from an iconic Ruth’s Chris Steak House (711 N. Broad St. at Orleans). The renovated 11,000-square foot center offers high-quality, cost-effective health care to residents, whether they have insurance or not. It is more than triple the size of the clinic’s former location at Covenant House, including 13 exam rooms with a capacity of 1,500 patient visits per month. The Brinton Family Health & Healing Center, which includes space for community events, meetings and group exercise, is a neighborhood hub for wellness care, providing counseling, social services and interactive health programming. 3. - In 2012, Providence Community Housing completed 19 affordable rental housing units scattered throughout the Lafitte Greenway Cultural District. The addresses are 613 N. Rocheblave, 619 N. Rocheblave, 633 N. Rocheblave, 635 N. Rocheblave, 2528 Conti, 2310 Iberville, 2410 Iberville, 2224 Iberville, 2010 Iberville, 2328 St. Louis, 2332 St. Louis, 421 N. Miro, 220 N. Derbigny, 1726 Bienville, 1718 Bienville, 1730 Bienville, 1722 Bienville, 1803 Bienville, and 1833 Bienville. In the summer of 2012, Providence Community Housing took over the management of the Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center. Providence has expanded the programs and services offered at Sojourner Truth. The center has a three-pronged focus: youth, seniors, and jobs. For youth, Young Audiences runs an after-school program for approximately 50 residents of Faubourg Lafitte. The students receive homework help, then participate in arts programming of their choice, including drum line, hip-hop and African dance, and draw/paint. Other youth programming includes summer camp, tennis classes, girl scouts, and soccer clinics. There is senior programming three days per week where seniors socialize, take field trips, and play BINGO. The wealth development programs offered at Sojourner Truth include Learner Web, Moneywise, Employment Information and Resume Workshops, and 21st Century Soft Skills Training. There is also health programming at Sojourner Truth, including group exercise classes. Providence Community Housing and Enterprise Community Partners built a new playground at the Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center (2200 Lafitte Street), adjacent to the future Lafitte Greenway. The playground opened November 16, 2012. 4. - The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) announced it is in the process of purchasing the former Israel Augustine Middle School (Broad St at Baudin St) from the Orleans Parish School Board and will convert the abandoned building into a career development and training center for low-income youth in public housing. Urban Strategies will manage the program and will offer services such as job training, mentoring, job coaching and placement, social and psychological support, substance abuse counseling, transportation, and child care. HANO has also continued with its Iberville Housing development project, having selected a design plan in 2012 and concluded its public meetings to focus on the historic and environmental impact the project will have on the community and the surrounding areas. The preliminary planning process is expected to be completed by April 2013, after which construction will begin on the first two phases of the project. The City selected and presented a plan designed by Manning Architects that “improves aesthetics through the installation of additional sidewalks, green space, access to the future Lafitte Greenway and landscaping.” Security, air quality, traffic, and drainage were also key factors in the selection. The plan incorporates 14 historic structures into the core of the development for a total of 880 units, compared to the 821 that currently sit on the 23-acre site. There will be 304 public housing units and 112 public housing replacement units in the immediate area for a total of 416 units in addition to 405 new voucher units. The Iberville redevelopment project will be mixed income.

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Rebuilding non-profits continue to assist residents in the Lafitte Greenway Cultural District by renovating homes damaged by Katrina, Rita, and Isaac. Phoenix of New Orleans (2307 Bienville St at Miro) completed renovations on the home of the last New Orleans resident living in a FEMA trailer in February 2012, marking the last FEMA trailer to leave New Orleans since Katrina. 5. - In 2010, the City of New Orleans set aside $7.6 million of CDBG money for planning and developing a greenway in the Lafitte Corridor. In 2011, Design Workshop was selected and started the planning process, which included multiple meetings with the city, stakeholders and community groups, and holding a series of public meetings for community input. The city also developed a website dedicated to the effort, www.lafittecorridorconnection.com, and a public visit in late 2011 by Ken Salazar, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, with representatives from Friends of Lafitte Corridor and The Urban Conservancy highlighted federal support for the project. In the fall of 2012 Design Workshop held its last series of public meetings and finalized design plans for the Lafitte Greenway as well as a revitalization, economic and zoning plan for the Lafitte Corridor area. Several hundred participants were present at these meetings. As of early 2013 the plans have been submitted to the City Planning Commission for approval prior to the bidding and ground-breaking process. 6. - Friends of the Lafitte Corridor (FOLC) hosted their annual “Hike the Lafitte Corridor” on April 14, 2012. Several hundred hikers participated and joined in a discussion led by FOLC Greenway Ambassadors about the corridor’s past, present, and future significance as the site of the Lafitte Greenway. The hike ended in the recently reopened Louis Armstrong Park and music accompaniment was provided by local band Baby Boyz Brass Band. A free bicycle safety workshop was provided by Bike Easy, and representatives from the Urban Conservancy were present to discuss the kiosk “Green Rooms” along the future Greenway. Friends of Lafitte Corridor also held a fundraiser dinner at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant (2301 Orleans Ave at Miro) in January 2013 to raise funds to help hire FOLC's first paid employee. The fundraiser featured as speakers Jeff Hebert (Executive Director of NORA), David Waggonner (Waggonner & Ball Architects), Bill Gilchrist (City Director of Place-Based Planning), and Susan Guidry (City Council Member). Nearly 200 people were in attendance at the sold-out event. With funding and technical support secured by The Urban Conservancy from The Rails to Trails Conservancy as well as the New Orleans Hash House Harriers, Massey’s Professional Outfitters, and Merrell Shoes, local sustainable design firm FutureProof designed innovative way-finding kiosks mark the location and importance of the future Lafitte Greenway. The kiosks, called “Green Rooms,” incorporate repurposed materials and help establish an identity along the future Greenway as well as build community ownership and pride in advance of the actual construction of the bike trail. A third kiosk was completed at N. Carrollton where it intersects the Lafitte Greenway with the help of volunteers, in addition to the two kiosks that were completed in 2011 at Jefferson Davis and N. Galvez. 7. - Public meetings for the Livable Claiborne Communities study began in December. Livable Claiborne Communities’ goals are to “analyze potential infrastructure investments along the inter-parish Claiborne Communities and its transects to improve transit; connect housing to jobs, schools and healthcare; manage soil and water; and promote livable communities as economic development.” The study will explore how Claiborne Avenue as a key transportation corridor can support community revitalization and help generate and integrate new initiatives, while continuing to serve as a critical transportation link for the rest of the city and adjoining parishes. The study is funded jointly by a Community Challenge Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and a TIGER II Planning Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation with a local match by New Orleans Not-for-Profit and Private Funding Partners and the City of New Orleans. The Mayor’s Office of Place-Based Planning is managing the study, and the City has engaged a consultant team led by Kittelson & Associates, Inc., to assist in preparing the study. 8. - The Claiborne Corridor Cultural Collaborative (C4) began a mapping project of the cultural assets in the area. C4 is a project of the City of New Orleans Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Our Town grant. The City will use this grant to evaluate “creative place-making” in neighborhoods along Claiborne Avenue, from Parish line to Parish line. The C4 Mapping Project will focus on the Corridor’s local cultural assets and will identify and engage with the City’s culture-makers, including formal organizations, traditional practitioners, and other independent cultural producers. 9. - As part of the Tremé 200 Festival, the 200th anniversary celebration of the historic neighborhood of Tremé, a brass blowout celebration took place at Lemann Playground at Lafitte St and N. Claiborne Ave on October 19, 2012. “Brass Under the Bridge: Rebirth Tribute” featured Hot 8, Dirty Dozen, Brass-A-Holics, The Original Pinettes, Baby Boyz and Rebirth Brass Bands. 10. - Kermit Ruffins opened Kermit's Treme Speakeasy Restaurant (1535 Basin St) in spring of 2012. Kermit performs with the Barbecue Swingers on Sundays and Mondays and hosts other musical and cultural events periodically. The Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans (MACCNO) formed and began weekly meetings and teach-ins at Kermit’s Tremé Speakeasy. The group advocated for musicians’ rights and music venues around the city.

4. IMPACT OF SALES TAX EXEMPTION~ Indicate the number of businesses, organizations, artists, events, and members of the public taking advantage of the original art sales tax exemption during this calendar year. Use approximate number if actual number is not known. IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a numeric field- use only digits- no words, characters, or symbols, like $ or commas are accepted.

# of Businesses - 0 # of Organizations - 0 # of Individual Artists - 0 # of Art Sale Events - 0 # of Public Benefitting - 0

5. RENOVATION PROJECTS~ Indicate the approximate number of building renovation projects begun in the Cultural District in 2012.

# Residential Projects - 45 # Commercial Projects - 10

6. BUILDING OCCUPANCY~ Indicate the percent of vacant buildings. (Refer to the vacancy reported in initial application)

30%

7. OTHER INCENTIVES~ If any, list additional local incentives offered to businesses and/or qualifying artists residing in the district.

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1. - No coordinated effort at this time. 2. - No coordinated effort at this time. 3. - No coordinated effort at this time.

8. ECONOMIC ACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS~ List approximate numbers for cultural economic activity occurring within the Cultural District. NOTE! Numeric field- use only digits, no words, characters, or symbols, like $ or commas are accepted.

Number of new businesses opened. - 10 How many were arts/cultural businesses? - 2 Number of businesses closed. - 0 How many were arts/cultural businesses? - 0 Approximate number of cultural events? - 60 Approximate number attending events? - 10000

9. CULTURAL, COMMUNITY and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT~ Describe impacts within the Cultural District during 2012. These comments should describe the progress toward goals stated in the initial Cultural District application related to each of the items below. Be concise. A. Artistic or cultural development - the promotion of the arts, encouraging creativity, attracting artists or other cultural businesses, new artist housing and studio spaces. B. Community development - engaging residents, providing a sense of community, serving as a gathering place, strengthening community partnerships, developing a positive image of your District C. Economic development - revitalizing the neighborhood, enhancing property values, stimulating the economy, drawing tourists, establishing new businesses

A. Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club (722 N. Broad St. at Orleans) hosted its 103rd Mardi Gras parade in 2012, the route of which runs in part through the Lafitte Greenway Cultural District. Zulu also hosted a series of events throughout the year, including a 5k benefit race, a ball, and other cultural events and gatherings. Numerous second line parades organized by social aid and pleasure clubs and featuring local musicians and cultural groups ran through the Cultural District. The Iconic Signage Project, a collaboration between the Arts Council of New Orleans and Broad Community Connections, created four new neon signs for businesses on Broad Street. Supported by a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the project revitalizes New Orleans’ Broad Street Main Street corridor by celebrating some of the many businesses that make Broad Street a vibrant commercial district. The Iconic Signage Project is an arts-based economic development project that employs local artists to promote small businesses, tell their story, and create a glowing visual identity for Broad Street. Broad Community Connections also partnered with My House and NOLA Drive-In to present a drive-in-style movie screening featuring local food trucks on the roof of the old Schwegmann’s on Broad and Bienville. Friends of Lafitte Corridor hosted two events featuring local musicians. Its annual hike featured the Baby Boyz Brass Band and its January fundraiser dinner featured trumpeter Mario Abney. Numerous musical and cultural events take place in the Basin St. area, including regular music events played at Kermit's Treme Speakeasy Restaurant. B. Friends of Lafitte Corridor hosts an annual Hike the Lafitte Corridor each year in April. In 2012, several hundred participants walked the length of the future greenway site, which includes passing through the Lafitte Greenway Cultural District. The event produced a media exposure through print, radio, and TV segments, and Council Member Susan Guidry spoke onsite prior to the Hike. The event also partnered with local organizations such as Bike Easy, Urban Conservancy, and People United for Armstrong Park. Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center continues to be a leader in its community and provides an array of classes and community services. The center acted as one of the primary locations for the last round of public meetings with Design Workshop for community input on the Lafitte Greenway. It also hosted a public meeting/charette in 2012 to discuss ideas for a possible skate park on the Lafitte Greenway. The Cultural District continues to pull stakeholders together. We have further developed our cohort of organizations, which now includes non-profits, resident and neighborhood associations, local business owners, city agencies (including City Planning Commission and city council members) as well as developers. Though construction of the Greenway is not yet underway, this coalition of stakeholders continues to move forward with the promotion, planning and outreach for the project. Key partners include, but are not limited to: The Urban Conservancy, Stay Local!, Broad Community Connections, NEWCITY, Providence Community Housing, Friends of Lafitte Corridor, and The City of New Orleans. C. Broad Community Connections (BCC) created the ReFresh Project, which will adaptively redevelop the former Schwegmann’s grocery building at Broad and Bienville Streets by converting it into a mixed-use development that will include a fresh and healthy affordable grocery; commercial kitchens for healthy school food service providers; a demonstration kitchen for culinary and nutrition education; café and retail space; office space for community and mission -driven organizations; and a community education and engagement space. The ReFresh Project will create a catalytic economic development anchor for the Broad Street corridor, promote health and resiliency by delivering fresh food access to the Broad Street neighborhoods and public schoolchildren citywide, create long-term community economic development capacity, and promote community engagement and social justice. Partners in the project include a fresh food grocery, a culinary and life-skills training program for at-risk youth, a medical teaching kitchen, a charter school management organization and other health- and wellness-related businesses and programs, with partnerships among tenants for impactful community programming. BCC would also like to cultivate a community garden and create space for community gatherings on site. There has been new housing that became available, and more to come, as a result of the redevelopment of Lafitte and Iberville housing. The Housing Authority of New Orleans, HRI Properties, and McCormick, Baron, Salazar have been awarded a Choice Neighborhoods Initiative grant to redevelop the Iberville public housing development and revitalize the surrounding neighborhood. The City of New Orleans and Builders of Hope, a North Carolina-based nonprofit, have partnered to relocate and rehab historic homes from within the footprint of the new VA hospital and University Medical Center. NEWCITY Neighborhood Partnership is a coalition of over one-hundred stakeholders committed to ensuring catalytic place-based development in the Tremé and Lower Mid-City Neighborhoods. Post-Katrina, there has been over $4.2 billion invested or slated to be invested in this area in the form of hospitals, housing, schools, parks and transportation improvements. The NEWCITY partners use monthly meetings at the Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center (2200 Lafitte Street) and an email list to discuss key development and recovery issues, explore opportunities for collaboration and group action, and synergize individual residents’ efforts, and share information. Liberty's Kitchen, a non-profit organization at 422 S. Broad dedicated to by building self-sufficiency for underserved youth by teaching life, social and employability skills in a culinary setting, continues to grow and serve the community. Liberty’s Kitchen supports its programs with teaching-focused businesses within the Lafitte Greenway Cultural District, including a working café and coffee house, catering business, and contract food services.

10. Briefly describe the organizational structure of your Cultural District. Organizational structure refers to who is responsible for implementing tasks and responsibilities for your district. This may be a local government office, community organization, staff person, volunteer, or other; and may be structured as the responsibility of a single person, an organization, or a committee or board.

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The Lafitte Greenway Cultural District is comprised of a group of organizations led by The Urban Conservancy and Friends of Lafitte Corridor. Mentioned community partners include (but are not limited to) Broad Community Connections, Stay Local!, NEWCITY, Providence Community Housing, Iberville Housing, Falstaff Apartments, and local businesses and organizations.

11. Do you have a plan for the development of your Cultural District? These can include existing plans of city agencies, urban plans, strategic plans, operational plans, etc.

Yes

12. If you answered "YES" to the previous question, please provide a brief description of the type of plan and the key objectives, tasks, financing and cost of implementing the plan. Email related documents to Gaye Hamilton, Cultural District Program Manager in the Office of Cultural Development to [email protected].

A full version of the City's and Design Workshop's plan for the Lafitte Greenway can be found by visiting http://www.lafittecorridorconnection.com/project-documents.html. Additional supporting documents as well as a plan for the economic revitalization of the surrounding Lafitte Corridor area can also be found at the above link. Friends of Lafitte Corridor has begun working toward goals outlined in its 2011 strategic planning session to help build capacity and define its relationship and responsibilities for the Lafitte Greenway moving forward. It specifically began raising funds in 2012 to hire its first staff member. FOLC is currently managed by an all-volunteer staff and its goal in hiring a paid staff member is to expand FOLC's capacity, garner further funding and support for the Greenway, and allow it to work with the City and other organizations to more effectively bring new ideas and amenities to the future Lafitte Greenway. FOLC will also be coordinating and meeting with local cultural and community-building organizations mentioned in this report to discuss ways to further develop the Cultural District and spread word to residents, businesses, and patrons of the district about the incentives and benefits that can be offered.

13. Communication within the Cultural District about Tax Incentives These communication tools would be used WITHIN your Cultural District to communicate with individuals, businesses, or organizations selling original works of art, or in regard to historic preservation tax credits. Indicate which, if any, communication tools were used to promote the rules and regulations for implementation of the tax incentives. Also, rate the effectiveness of each tool.

Excellent (1) Good (2) Average (3) Poor (4) Not Used (0)

Website X Social Media X Brochure X Newsletter X Flyers X TV/Radio X Advertisements X Stories/Articles X State sponsored public meetings X LGA sponsored public meetings X District sponsored public meetings X Other ~ List or describe other methods of communication used:

14. Promotion of the Cultural District to the Public These promotional tools would be used for promoting visibility of the district, encouraging audiences and visitors to the district, engaging residents, developing a positive image of the district, etc. Indicate which, if any, promotional tools were used to promote the existence of your Cultural District to the public. Also, rate the effectiveness of each tool.

Excellent (1) Good (2) Average (3) Poor (4) Not Used (0)

Website X Public Meetings X Social Media X Events Calendar X Brochure X Newsletter X Flyers X TV/Radio X Advertisements X Stories/Articles X Logo X Boulevard Pole Signage X Land Markers X

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Other ~ List or describe other means of promotion used:

15. Rank your top 5 choices for new services that could be provided by the State as it relates to the future development of your Cultural District?

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

Choice Choice Choice Choice Choice

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

Yearly and mandatory meeting of all cultural district

representatives Series of educational and training meetings throughout the year,

regionally and/or based on theme Initial grant of $3,000 upon certification as a cultural district to be

used for district promotions Competitive grant up to $5,000 for implementation of cultural X district plans and activities Grants for infrastructure improvements - streetscapes, lighting, X landscaping, sidewalks. Grants for building improvements X Market analysis and consumer spending analysis for your district Consultants and other staffing services to implement plans and

activities for your district Webinars Social networking between cultural districts representatives -

listservs, Facebook, etc. Training or consultant to assist in the development of a cultural

district plan State sponsored paid advertisements promoting all cultural X districts State sponsored promotional materials for promoting sales tax exemption of original works of art at retail outlets on the web X (rack cards, window signage, web banners, etc.) Other (please specify):

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