NEW ORLEANS – The Downtown Development District (DDD) announces “Wednesdays At The Square” is back.
• YLC has volunteer opportunities for YLC's 2016 Wednesday at the Square concert series at Lafayette Square beginning on Wednesday, March 2 and going every Wednesday through Wednesday, May 18, 2016, from 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. WATS is an entirely volunteer led event, and YLC's largest annual fundraiser, helping to raise funds which directly supports YLC's 15 community service projects, working to improve the quality of life in the New Orleans region. Volunteers receive food and drink tickets from YLC to use during their volunteer shifts at Wednesday at the Square.
The DDD is a major sponsor of the concert series.
Kicking off the free 12-week concert series Wednesday will be Royal Teeth and Naughty Professor.
View a complete list of performers here
• Download the free Downtown NOLA Mobile App featuring the Downtown guide, SafeWalk and ways to communicate directly with the DDD about Downtown matters.
Download through the iTunes Store here
Download through Google Play here
• Today is the last day for contemporary visual artists to submit to the Contemporary Arts Center’s 2016 Open Call for submissions. Artists who live, show work, or have held an artist residency (during the 2015 calendar year) in New Orleans or the surrounding region (within 200 miles of New Orleans city limits) are eligible to apply.
The exhibition will be on view at the CAC from Saturday, August 6 through Sunday, September 25. The opening reception will take place during Whitney White Linen Night.
• On Monday, March 14, from 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. join the DDD, CANO and LCEF for the 4th annual Downtown NOLA Arts-Business Pitch aimed at identifying and supporting entrepreneurs that have a scalable project situated in the creative field.
Finalists competing for over $40K in resources are:
Culturalyst – a web platform that creates an organized and highly visual directory of a city's creative population, accompanied by a support mechanism.
Escape My City – an ongoing scavenger hunt game in Downtown New Orleans which invites players to visit various businesses and cultural institutions.
Girl's Guide – a resource for women on the go in major cities, providing a web and mobile interface that gives members full access to a curated and accurate list of everything a city can offer, including shopping, dining, bars, salons, and so much more.
LIBERTAD – a self-guided digital tour app that allows an immersive and personal exploration of slavery in the CBD section of New Orleans. It will be the first in a series of "Uncover New Orleans" Tour Apps that highlight under discovered aspects of the living museum that is New Orleans.
PatentDive – an application to allow artists, creatives, and inventors to create design patents in minutes.
In anticipation of the pitch, CANO and LCEF will host two forums focused on the creative economy. "Breakthrough Coalition for the Creative Industries" and "Pipelines and Lifelines for Creative Industries Business Development."
Other sponsors for this year's pitch include Postlethwaite & Netterville, Jones Walker, Wisznia, beta and Corporate Realty.
• Check out the lineup for this year's New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW), presented by IBERIABANK, an eight-day business festival engaging New Orleans' entrepreneurial community. Produced by The Idea Village, NOEW will be held on Fulton St. in Downtown New Orleans from Friday, March 11 through Friday, March 18, culminating with the crowd-driven extravaganza – the Blackstone Big Idea, featuring 10 finalists.
Cast your vote to select those 10 who will compete for $25K in cash and prizes.
• The Domain Companies has announced pre-leasing at The Beacon, the much-anticipated luxury apartment building located in the South Market District, Downtown New Orleans. The Beacon features 124 one- and two-bedroom apartments and penthouses, 20,000 square feet of retail space, and proximity to some of the city's best restaurants, shops and entertainment.
• Traffic Advisors for Downtown include:
Picayune Pl., between Natchez and Gravier streets closed to vehicular traffic with no on-street parking, during work hours while crews perform exploratory excavation work. Due to underground utility conflicts, the Sewerage and Water Board must redesign placement of the new waterline prior to installation. Once exploratory excavation work is completed, the street will be temporarily asphalted and open to vehicular traffic until waterline replacement work begins.
Waterline replacement work is scheduled to begin in March 2016 and last approximately three months. During this time Picayune Pl., between Natchez and Gravier streets, will be closed to vehicular traffic with no on-street parking, during work hours.
Beginning Monday, February 22, 2016 and lasting approximately three months, Gravier St. between Baronne and O'Keefe streets will be closed to vehicular traffic with no on-street parking, during work hours. The scope of work includes excavating a portion of the roadway, replacing damaged or leaking water lines, placing fill material beneath the roadway, and paving the damaged portion of the roadway.
In both projects, construction crews will be working from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Work on the weekends is not anticipated; however, inclement weather may alter the project schedule.
• City of New Orleans Department of Public Works has traffic coordination maps for the major portions of the City that are currently being impacted by construction including Downtown New Orleans.
The maps are updated every 2 weeks.
• Downtown organizations may register and add their company and/ or event to the DDD website site for free.
• If you own a security camera in New Orleans, you can now register it with the NOPD to help detectives solve crimes in your neighborhood and provide strong evidence to put offenders away.
The New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation, in partnership with the NOPD, launched a new online service called Safecam NOLA. The program allows residents and business owners to register their security cameras with New Orleans Police. The SafecamNOLA project is an expansion of "Safecam8," which was an on-line program that Downtown residents and business owners in the Eighth Police District have been using for years to register their cameras with Eighth District police. The 1,302 8th District cameras that are in that system are now included in the citywide SafecamNOLA system.
• Citizens in Downtown New Orleans can call 311 to request delivery of the blue recycling bins if their property is eligible for collection by the City.
Residents and small businesses can recycle paper, small metals, cardboard and plastics (#1-#7) on Tuesday of each week. Glass will be collected on Thursday.
Collection of recyclable materials is operated by Empire Services.
