NEW ORLEANS – On hallowed ground, where delectable and individually wrapped Hubig’s Pies were once produced for the hungry masses, a vacant lot in the Faubourg Marigny may now become home to… condos.
According to Jaquetta White with The New Orleans Advocate, The City Planning Commission voted this week to allow the area of the former bakery to be transformed into an eight-unit condominium complex.
Even though the City Council gets a final say, it looks like the Hubig’s Pie lot in the 2400 block of Dauphine Street will no longer be the place where apple, peach and pineapple delicacies baked with fresh, local ingredients will be prepared, fried and distributed.
White reported the conditional use permit received opposition by several neighbors who argued the condo development would damage the neighborhood’s character. The commission voted 8-1 to approve the plan.
On July 27, 2012, The Simon Hubig Pie Co. building was destroyed by a fire.
White reports Drew Ramsey, the bakery’s last manager and the son of one of the business’s two owners, said Hubig’s future was still unclear even though Hubig’s won City Council approval in 2013 to build a new, 16,000-square-foot bakery on a vacant lot bounded by Burgundy, North Rampart, St. Ferdinand and Press Streets.
The design of the condo project will need to be reviewed by the Historic District Landmarks Commission, White reports.