Projects
Active Projects
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 Mid-City
Preliminary findings from the research and analysis of the MidCity neighborhood conducted by the faculty and students of the Urban Planning + Design program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. 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 >
Carondelet Basin Greenway
Referred to by many names—the Lafitte Corridor, the Lafitte Greenway, the Old Carondelet Basin, the Carondelet Walk, etc.—this strip of land connecting the French Quarter with Bayou St. John and Lake Pontchartrain has a long history of linking various neighborhoods and could once again serve the city as an inviting and uniting public park. Read more >
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 >
Past Projects
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 >
