BY JESSICA WILLIAMS | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. DEC 9, 2017 - 9:30 PM

A program that offers a three-to-one match to business owners who spruce up their storefronts will be expanded next year to include properties along sections of North Broad Street, St. Bernard Avenue, Basin Street and Alcee Fortier Boulevard, officials with the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority said at a board meeting this month. 

The agency's Façade Renew program pays 75 percent of the cost of restoring eligible historic storefronts. 

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BY JESSICA WILLIAMS | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  DEC 5, 2017 - 8:00 PM

An effort to breathe new life into the stagnant Lower 9th Ward and boost the city’s stock of affordable housing is inching forward, New Orleans Redevelopment Authority officials said Tuesday.

Two developers tasked with turning vacant 9th Ward lots into affordable housing, long stalled by financing troubles, have received or are close to receiving the commitments needed to get their projects moving.

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