Tagged: central city

Features
7:00 am
Fri March 8, 2013

Café Reconcile Reopens Next Week

Café Reconcile is reopening in a much larger space at its Central City location.

One of New Orleans’ favorite restaurants is reopening next week. Café Reconcile will be bigger, and able to train even more young people in restaurant operations.

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Solar Panels in Central City
9:33 am
Mon June 25, 2012

Solar Panels Crop Up in New Orleans Development

A new development of affordable housing in Central City, a neighborhood plagued by blight and abandoned houses, is seeing a flourishing of solar panels.

The Times-Picayune reports that residents in the Harmony Neighborhood Development are putting solar panels on their homes.

The development, being built by a nonprofit, is being constructed using federal funding to convert blighted and vacant properties into the new affordable housing.

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Central City Shootings
9:15 pm
Tue May 29, 2012

Child, woman killed in Central City birthday party shooting

The staggering low point of a day in which nine people were shot in New Orleans came at mid-afternoon, when a five-year-old girl and another innocent bystander were left mortally wounded outside a young boy's tenth birthday party.

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