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Apartment Complex rising on old Winn Dixie Site in Treme

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Appearing on Nola.com and Written by Beau Evans

 

 

A new apartment complex with affordable units is planned where the former Winn Dixie once stood on St. Louis Street near Basin Street in Treme. It’s part a push to add more housing stock to the neighborhood after the Iberville housing project was closed after Hurricane Katrina.

Developers, working with the Housing Authority of New Orleans, are poised to break ground on a $23.2 million project to replace the old supermarket with a four-story housing complex that has 76 living units. Of those, 30 would be reserved for low-income residents and Section 8 housing voucher recipients.

The site lies behind a parking lot off Basin Street, neighboring St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 and close to the French Quarter. The building that housed the Winn Dixie was demolished last year. HANO owns the land.

It sits next to a portion of the Iberville development that was torn down in 2013. HANO received a $30.5 million federal grant in 2011 to rebuild the site with new housing units.

Aside from housing, the plan also calls for widening adjacent Marais Street and creating a walkway extension to the Lafitte Greenway. Around 60 parking spots will also be retained, according to design records.

The project developer is McCormack Baron Salazar, a national firm based in St. Louis. On Tuesday (Feb. 12), the company secured approval from the city’s Industrial Development Board for a $4,630 annual tax break over the next 40 years.

HCI Architecture and Schrenk Endom Flanagan, both New Orleans firms, designed the project. Landis Construction is the general contractor.

The new apartment complex figures in a package of federally funded housing projects HANO is overseeing to replace 821 public housing units in the Treme-Iberville area that were eliminated after Katrina. City officials said Tuesday that 579 of those units have been built so far.