Revitalizing Neighborhoods: The Warehouse District

[Metro Jacksonville]

Revitalizing Neighborhoods: The Warehouse District



Metro Jacksonville checks out a revitalized industrial district now referred by some as the "SoHo of the South": New Orleans' Warehouse District.

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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2012-feb-revitalizing-neighborhoods-the-warehouse-district

[ben says]

Beautiful area. Really a model of what Jacksonville can do in any number of locations.

[mtraininjax]

Jacksonville was settled officially in 1832, and New Orleans had been settled way earlier in 1718. So that gives NO a good 114 year head start. Jax will come around, eventually.

[Dog Walker]

The warehouse district in NO is much newer than 1832.  The area was deserted for a while after ship freight shifted to containers, but new uses have been coming into that area for decades.

[civil42806]

Well thats all well and good, but the critical question is did the companies renovating the warehouses maintain the original windows?

[Dog Walker]

Well thats all well and good, but the critical question is did the companies renovating the warehouses maintain the original windows?

With a few exceptions, when they were converted to lofts, yes.