Construction is underway on a mixed income apartment complex that will bring 50 apartments, including 37 “affordable” or rent-restricted units, to a long-vacant, city-owned property on the edge of the French Quarter, Treme and Faubourg Marigny.
Developers and city officials held a groundbreaking Friday on the Esplanade Delille Apartments, set to be completed in April 2027, on a site that was part of the St. Aloysius School campus until the 1960s.
In 2023, HRI Communities and New Orleans Restoration Properties were selected to do the project by the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority, which is leasing the property from the city…