On Monday, New Orleans began its latest attempt to clear and secure the massive blighted Navy base that's stood vacant in the Bywater area of the city for over a decade. . (LogOut/ "; Belinda Little-Wood estimates between $500,000 to a million dollars of furniture has been ruined from water damage since the city left the base abandoned in 2013. The New Orleans Police Department confirmed to The Sun that they were responding to reports of shots fired in the 4400 block of Dauphine Street. Look at the money they throw around for defense which is merely a fig leaf for genociding people Israel doesnt like (plus enriching the industrial barons and their pet politicians). Rich people in their neighborhood instead of homeless. THEYRE GROWING MORE AND MORE WEARY. And were plannin on being here for 40 more. Which one would you want? To the military personnel and the civilians I served with you all are the bomb. The New Orleans mayor addressed citizen concerns Tuesday over the state of the abandoned Naval Support Activity Center site. 2018: In August, WWL-TV reported that Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration three years earlier had redirected at least $40 million in federal grants intended for revitalizing the Bywater property and had used it for unrelated drainage projects. Now behind chained gates, the City of New Orleans still owns the property and is responsible for securing it. A history of the abandoned Naval Support Activity campus on New Orleans' east bank, Dauphine Street between Poland Avenue and the Industrial Canal, transform the building closest to Poland Avenue into a 295-unit "luxury affordable" apartment building, redirected at least $40 million in federal grants, later identified as 25-year-old Slidell waitress Brooke Buchler, one-alarm fire spreads across four floors. Temporary lodging is available at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans in the Navy Lodge. It stars Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Meanwhile, Judy Bolton watches the building continue to fall into disrepair and become even more expensive to fix up. All these ideas have fallen through and now it sits ABANDONED home to homeless, scrappers, and vandals. Firefighters said the deteriorated condition of the building, which contained piles of trash, holes in the floors and open elevator shafts, made the search for injured people difficult. The city of New Orleans technically owns the site. A production crew is currently filming scenes there for a Netflix sci-fi movie called POWER about a drug epidemic. We found dead bodies, shootings, and open elevator shafts. City officials released this statement Monday regarding the ongoing issues at the naval base. "The New Orleans Fire Department reported that the abandoned naval base on 4400 Dauphine Street was on fire on Sunday morning. TheBywater facilityon Poland Avenue was home to nearly 3900 active-duty and 2,700 civilian personnel. Deputy Mayor Ryan Berni told reporters the project to redevelop the base "was not in a place to move forward" when City Hall had to formulate a spending plan for the grant money. I released my first book, Abandoned Birmingham, in July 2018 and it is available worldwide through most major booksellers. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Have you served? PLEASE MAINTAIN AND PUT GUARDS ON THEM. The base has been abandoned since the City of New Orleans acquired it in 2013. A woman whose body was found in the abandoned Naval Support Activity complex in Bywater last month had been shot to death, the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office said Wednesday. NEW ORLEANS -- Firefighters were dispatched to the abandoned naval base on Poland Avenue after a trash fire was set inside the building. The site overlooks the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Industrial Canal. Graffiti artists use the naval bases exterior walls as a canvas. Behold, your tax dollars at work. The city of New Orleans acquired it in 2013, but it has sat vacant since then. Naval Support Activity (NSA New Orleans) is a massive complex of three, six-storybuildings that tower over the East Bank of the Mississippi River. to the address or the adjacent area 176 times . City officials released this statement Monday regarding the ongoing issues at the naval base. 1 The New Orleans Police Department is responding to reports of shots fired The 1.5. I live in the Boston area and these pictures looked really familiar. Bywater Neighborhood Association president John Guarnieri said, Were dealing with a property thats had problems for well over 10 years.. There was a problem saving your notification. What are your long-term plans? Although plans are in place, like many other sites, the naval complex remains abandoned. MICHAEL I WATER THE THIRD FOR HIM AND HIS WIFE MY BUDDY WAS SITTING THERE GETTING HIS WALLET OUT. SHE TOLD ME THE SUSPECT. Change). Without that funding, Guarnieri fears a setback of years renovating the property. The shuttered base appears to be empty and forgotten these days with knee high weeds and a graffiti covered exterior. I was a watch commander in Base Security on the East Bank and sometimes worked on the West Bank from June 1994 to March 1996. 2023, Hearst Television Inc. on behalf of WDSU-TV. "They need to do something about it," said Bywater resident Jerry Wickes.. calendar.gambitweekly.com. The agreement would also allow for two extensions, bringing the total term to 99 years. They build a monster facility for this NOBLE purpose and eventually just say oh well, well go somewhere else now, ta-da., Would like to become full time security there but am still trying to find out who to talk to. 1941:The Army establishes the Port of Embarkation on the property, to supply itsCaribbean and South Atlantic commands. The parking deck of the former naval base on Poland Avenue in New Orleans stands behind homes in the Bywater neighborhood on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. My photographs have been featured on CBS Inside Edition, CNN Travel, Houston Chronicle, The Weather Channel, MSN, Yahoo News, NPR, the UK Sun, the Daily Mail, NOLA.com, AL.com, and many others. (Photo by Sophia Germer, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate). you. NEW ORLEANS The New Orleans Fire Department is reporting that the abandoned naval base in the Bywater neighborhood caught fire once again Sunday. The announcement comes on the heels of a shooting inside the blighted property that . In 2016, the city of New Orleans selected a former New Orleans homeland security chief,Col. Terry Ebbert and businessman Bill Ryan, to redevelop the naval complex into a resiliency center.The center wouldmanage regional disasters, a cruise ship terminal, lodging, and amenities such as grocery and retail stores. With this sweep will also be other questions: What happens with the people who are living there? Trespassers removed plugs from old diesel tanks, causing the oil spill in August, and police reports show more than 80 crimes on the property since 2016, including theft and battery. On Monday, July 11, the City of New Orleans, in partnership with the developer of the property, will begin to fully secure and close the site. Neighbors, like Judy Bolton, say its apparent the city has done little to restrict access to the 1.5 million square-foot facility. No injuries were reported, but neighbors have long been on edge over the eyesore property that has been the site of numerous fires and other acts of violence. See a spelling or grammar error in our story? New Orleans submits a reuse plan to transform it into a disaster management center. Its become the zoo that it is now, said Stanton. In case of an emergency, the New Orleans Fire Department and New Orleans Emergency Medical Services will be on standby as well., Demo teams, security, NOPD and EMS are at the old abandoned naval base in the Bywater.Teams are going to sweep the property this morning, where about 100 people live. But that still hasnt happened, and neighbors are complaining the building has become a danger and an eyesore. PublishedNovember 28, 2018 at 5:24 PM CST. Additional details, including a possible motive, were not immediately available. RAN OFF TOWARDS THE BASE. December 19, 2021. When a fire broke out in the three-building, multi-storied, 1 million-square-foot property, even Clint Stanton who evacuated from the fire and should not be living on the property said something needed to be done to it. Updated: 10:31 AM CDT July 31, 2022. Water continuously runs from broken pipes, causing area flooding. Back in the day, 95-year-old Lauren Swinney took pride in living next to what was then the F. Edward Hebert Defense Complex. The City continues to be a supportive partner with the developer to bring this site back into commerce as a transformative mixed-use project as quickly as possible, which is the only path to ensuring that they are no longer nuisances and hazards in our community.". danced in the streets with you and cried over our collective loss with I want the city to handle this, because it is out of control.. March 24, 2019 There are few bare surfaces in the abandoned naval base in Bywater, New Orleans. The fire was a 1-alarm fire, and NOFD is on the scene securing the fire. During the 1930s, there were only three such centers in existence in the United States. witl.com. NavalStation to the U.S. There could be an explosion or fires and, heaven forbid, somebody gets killed or theres an accident of some sort - its going to be the citys responsibility.. 2011:The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development approves theBywater reuse plan. Joe Jaeger recently signed a 99 year lease with the city to began work renovating the property. The city says it has taken steps in recent weeks to secure the naval base by leasing it to film companies with private security details. WDSU reached out to Jaegar but there was no response. Abandoned billet home. WDSU reached out to Jaegar but there was no response. (LogOut/ 2016: The Bywater site is placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the City Councilproposes a leasefor it. 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An artist's sketch shows the F. Edward Hbert Defense Complex in New Orleans' Bywater section in 1975. There have been previous incidents at the abandoned naval base, dating back to 2018 when a man reportedly told police he had been kidnapped and pistol-whipped at the base.