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At its commission meeting this morning, the Downtown Development District announced plans to host an open house to review LSU landscape architecture students’ designs for the stretch along the Mississippi River from the Water Campus to River Park.
No date has been set for the open house. The designs serve as a part of the students’ senior project.
The DDD wants to keep the area on par with the other structures nearby.
“As we think about the River Center itself potentially changing, we need to think about how the riverfront and the River Center sort of change together and complement one another because we have the opportunity to make that a really special connection between the two,” DDD Executive Director Whitney Hoffman Sayal says.
The commission also mentioned that the new downtown parking systems will begin on April 29.
There is a grace period before the rollout, where drivers will receive a warning ticket.
The revamped system is designed to encourage parking turnover, which should benefit downtown businesses and increase revenue for the city-parish.
Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration has been trying to overhaul the downtown parking system after scrapping a plan initially proposed by former Mayor Kip Holden. In 2020, the city-parish finalized changes in the management of city-owned parking garages, but supply chain snags in 2021 delayed the installation of the new meters.
Parking regulations are in effect from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. The cost is 25 cents per 15 minutes with a two-hour limit.
“Event parking on weekends and evenings will still be free,” Sayal says.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated since original publication.
