Category Archives: Announcements

The Pythian Development Will Offer Affordable Housing, Community-Oriented Commercial Spaces

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The Pythian project is getting off the ground! Our development in partnership with Green Coast Enterprises will offer six floors of residential units, one floor of community-oriented office spaces, a health clinic, and several well-designed retail spaces on the first two floors.

Crescent City Community Land Trust is helping to secure affordable office space within The Pythian for community-oriented tenants, non-profits, and health-oriented uses. We are also securing 40% of the residential rental units in the building as permanently affordable units, so that more people who work downtown and in our new hospitals will be able to live downtown as well. More information on the development can be found here.

The Pythian building at 234 Loyola was originally built by Samuel L. Green for the Colored Knights of Pythias, a Late 19th/Early 20th Century fraternal order that grew out of a Civil War era organization. Mr. Green was reputed to be the wealthiest African-American in New Orleans, and perhaps in the country. We have renamed the building The Pythian to honor this heritage.

Visit The Pythian’s website for more information on commercial leasing. Information about residential leasing coming in 2015!

Greater New Orleans Foundation Features Crescent City in 2012 Annual Report

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Photo courtesy GNOF; photographer: Jackson Hill

The Greater New Orleans Foundation (GNOF) has just released its annual report that is themed “Where Big Ideas Take Shape.” Crescent City Community Land Trust is featured on Page 4 with a quick overview of our work and approach. Click to download the full annual report from GNOF. The document is an inspirational compendium of GNOF’s difference-making work throughout New Orleans. It also details the organization’s plan for building and launching its Center for Philanthropy, a 20,000 square foot facility that will serve as a nexus of philanthropy and non-profit work throughout greater New Orleans.

New Orleans OCD Consolidated Plan Highlights Community Land Trusts

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Crescent City Community Land Trust today commented on the City of New Orleans Office of Community Development’s (OCD) recently released 2012-2016 Consolidated Plan. The plan, released just prior to 4Q 2012, incorporated content that acknowledged the evolving terrain of how affordable housing – one of three areas of focus for Crescent City – is approached. It pointed to long-term affordability as a new arena for consideration while highlighting the community land trust model as an example.

  • Click here to read the full announcement.
  • Click here to access the OCD’s action plan page and to download the full plan.

Crescent City Executive Director Van Temple to Present at 2012 National Community Land Trust Conference

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Crescent City Community Land Trust Executive Director Van Temple will serve as a panelist in two seminar sessions at the 2012 National Community Land Trust Conference on Wednesday, September 12, at 9:45 a.m. and 11:05 a.m. (EASTERN), respectively.

On the panel segments, titled “The Central Server: Our Experience To Date,” Van will discuss Crescent City’s unique approach and model and its innovative focus on three distinct yet critical and interrelated areas - residential real estate, commercial real estate and vacant land. Through the two-part panel discussion, he will join colleagues from Atlanta and Rhode Island to compare notes and share examples and successes and enter into a discussion of challenges faced to date.

The conference begins today in Burlington, VT, with the theme “Transforming Communities Through Innovation and Collaboration.” The conference runs through Thursday, September 13. It is an annual event of the National Community Land Trust Network, which advances a mission of providing training, advocacy and resources for its member organizations which nurture and sustain healthy and economically diverse communities by providing permanently affordable access to land, homes, and related resources.