A new $3 million food pavilion at Metairie’s Lafreniere Park is again asking local businesses to sell food at the park after the first request was unsuccessful.
The Lafreniere Park Area Public Benefit Corporation, a corporation managing the pavilion, put out a second request for proposals from food service businesses interested in operating one of four restaurant kitchens at the Pointe at Lafreniere Food Pavilion being built on the shores of the park’s lagoons, where construction is nearly completed.
Jefferson Parish Council member Arita Bohannan, whose district includes the park, said the first request, put out last September, did not receive enough responses and included a start date that was no longer feasible due to construction delays…