NEW ORLEANS - At a recent community crime meeting in Fabourg Marigny, a 5th District police officer let slip that they had received notice from developer Pres Kabacoff that it might soon be time to leave their current location at the old Universal Furniture building on St. Claude Avenue and start looking for other accommodations.
Kabacoff needs the Police out of the way so that he can build a.. um..
Kabacoff plans to turn the 55,000 square foot Universal Furniture building into a $13 million holistic center with a grocery store, restaurant, Internet café, retail bazaar and educational and health care services. The project is designed to revitalize the St. Claude corridor.
That's actually a bit of a tamer description of the "Healing Center" from the one we got the last time we paid it any attention.
While the healing center is only in the planning stages now, its founders say it will occupy a unique niche in the city. Louisiana is one of only three states without a cooperative grocery store, in which members buy an ownership share and work shifts to offset the cost of groceries, and Kabacoff said there is no place in the city where people can find various types of alternative medicine, "from reiki to acupuncture to things I don't even know about," under one roof.
Somebody must have scoured for a new paradigm*
*See the rest of that post.
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