Projects
Active Projects
Lafitte Greenway
A broad coalition of organizations, foundations, and individuals has made great progress over the past year to transform an abandoned rail corridor running from Treme to Lakeview into a public amenity that New Orleanians can use to bike, walk, run, garden, and play along. Read more >
Greenway Businesses
What does a healthy business environment have to do with a healthy environment? Everything, if you ask Mike Massey, native New Orleanian and local business owner of Massey’s Professional Outfitters. Read more >
Heritage Tourism in New Orleans
A link to our Neighborhood Guide & Map series celebrating New Orleans’ neighborhoods as cultural and commercial destinations. UC and “Stay Local!”:http://www.staylocal.org redesigned the Mid-City guide in 2012 with plans for more in 2013. Read more >
Stay Local!
A project of The Urban Conservancy, Stay Local! is a city-wide initiative for creating a strong economy based on locally owned and operated business. Stay Local! encourages consumers to shop locally while helping independent businesses compete more effectively. Read more >
Past Projects
Real People. Real Input.
Since 2001, The Urban Conservancy has been providing the citizens of New Orleans with a means of engaging in meaningful public dialogue about issues facing the community. Read more >
UC on TV: Dispatch From The City
The Urban Conservancy’s TV show, “Dispatch from the City,” debuted in November of 2003. The quarterly show will follow a new topic of interest to neighborhoods and communities everywhere, with a special focus on New Orleans. You will find us in the nether reaches of your Orleans Parish cable dial on Channel 77 on Fridays at 9:30 AM and 9:30 PM. Read more >
Beyond Bourbon Street
The Urban Conservancy is working with Tulane students to document examples of positive commercial and residential infill and adaptive reuse in New Orleans, illustrating how business development can be balanced with protection of New Orleans’ unique historic urban environment with cost effective and financially successful results. Read more >
