Just around the corner from the elite Country Club of Louisiana lies a road less than a mile long known as Highland Crossing Street. It lacks the exclusive, gated ambience of its neighboring subdivision, but homes along this stretch are in the million-dollar club, fetching anywhere between $1.5 million and $10 million. Residing here is an eclectic mix of businessmen, lawyers, physicians and surgeons, and two failed gubernatorial candidates. Among its more high-profile residents: Dr. Charles Williamson Sr. of Williamson Eye Center, former Shaw CEO Jim Bernhard, Performance Contractors President Art Favre, as well as former Congressman Cleo Fields and former state Sen. Walter Boasso, both of whom ran unsuccessfully at different times for governor. Readers should note that the assessed value represents the value on file with the Office of the Assessor for tax purposes, and not the actual appraised value of the home. Williamson’s Highland Road abode, for example, is currently on the market for $2.9 million, while listing agents estimate that in the unlikely event Bernhard’s sprawling property were ever on the market, the asking price might be somewhere around $10 million.
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A. 16954 Highland Road
Owner: Charles Williamson Sr.
Purchased: 2005
Purchase price: $1.6 million
Assessed value: $1.6 million
B. 16842 Highland Road
Owners: Denzil Louis Moraes and Shirley McGovern Moraes
Purchased: 2004
Purchase price: $1.025 million
Assessed value: $1.072 million
C. 17150 Highland Road
Owners: James M. Bernhard Sr. and Dana R. Bernhard
Purchased: 2001, 2002 (separate land purchases)
Purchase price: $1.122 million
Assessed value: $4.42 million
D. 300 Highland Crossing
Owners: John Carmouche and Trisha Richard Carmouche
Purchased: 2010
Purchase price: $10 and other valuable considerations
Assessed value: $1.513 million
E. 320 Highland Crossing
Owners: Vankat Surakanti and Preethi Surakanti
Purchased: 2007
Purchase price: $2.1 million
Assessed value: $2.1 million
F. 413 Highland Crossing
Owner: Walter Boasso
Purchased: 2013
Purchase price: $1.8 million
Assessed value: $840,500
G. 442 Highland Crossing
Owners: David Neal Hastings and Dana Barksdale Hastings
Purchased: 2001
Purchase price: $375,000
Assessed value: $1.013 million
H. 510 Highland Crossing
Owners: Kyle Charles Girod and Sonia Schuurman Girod
Purchased: $450,000
Assessed value: $1.175 million
I. 560 Highland Crossing
Owner: Rene Ortlieb III
Purchased: 2006
Purchase price: N/A
Assessed value: $1.210 million
J. 610 Highland Crossing
Owner: Art Favre
Purchased: 2007, 2008
Purchase price: $2.02 million
Assessed value: $2.02 million
K. 570 Highland Crossing
Owners: Cleo Fields and Debra Horton Fields
Purchased: 2002, 2003
Purchase price: $686,200
Assessed value: $2.098 million
