It's a day that ends in y...

.. it means we're building more nice things for rich people.

The site of the former L.A. Frey & Sons meat packing plant in the Bywater will soon be converted into a 75-unit condo building.

Site work has begun at 900 Bartholomew St. for the condo project called The Saxony, according to a news release from Latter & Blum Builder/Developer Services. The developer is Ward Investments.
The five-story building will include 75 units with studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom layouts priced between $189,000 to $642,500. The project also includes gated parking, a pool, and fitness and meeting rooms.

Are we doing it on purpose? You bet we are. Here is a thread.

Update: Here also is Desiree Charbonnet's housing plan.  Like pretty much anything you find on a candidate's website, it's intended to blow smoke.  For example, the bit about short term rentals seems ok but notice how the notion of what might be "possible" shows through.

3. Improve and develop policies and programs to preserve and protect established residential neighborhoods, including additional restrictions on short-term rentals (STRs) and improving planning and enforcement processes. I will support amending the Short-term Rental Ordinances (covering, for example, AirBnB and VRBO) to place greater restrictions on STRs. Possible additional restrictions include limiting the number of STRs in neighborhoods zoned for single-family residences, possibly to one per block, and requiring the property owner to have a homestead exemption. Additionally, I support fully maintaining the prohibition on STRs in the French Quarter.

The highlight proposal, though, is a plan to dedicate some percentage of city revenue generated by property and sales taxes on new developments toward "housing programs." The housing programs in question are not specified in the plan. There is a lot of language about finding public, private, non-profit, and financial "partners" to do, well, something. It doesn't really say.  But the idea here is, in the future, when we build nice things for rich people, we'll be sure to spread the benefits of that around to.... well, nominally, to the housing stressed residents, although something tells me the "partners" come a little higher in the pecking order.