The Foundation for Historical Louisiana applauds the decision to delay getting approval for the Capitol Lofts apartment complex and says the current plans for the controversial apartment building should be “totally scrapped.” Earlier this week, the foundation came out against Capitol Lofts, but the group used their strongest language yet today against the Spanish Town project. “It is strong language, but we don’t feel the design they are showing us is compatible to what is there (in Spanish Town),” says Carolyn Bennett, executive director of the historical foundation. Bennett says the design for Capital Lofts is “out of scale” with the neighboring two or three story buildings and the rest of Spanish Town. David Slaughter, who is developing Capitol Lofts, sent a letter this morning saying he would “briefly delay” bringing the project before the Historic Preservation Commission “until further agreements may be reached.” The commission was set to vote on Capitol Lofts Wednesday.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation sent a letter to the commission today opposing the Capitol Lofts project as designed. The letter offers the city “technical and financial assistance for conducting feasibility and alternative design studies,” but doesn’t elaborate as to what that assistance would entail.
