Notable New Orleanians: A Tricentennial Tribute
An illustrated history of New Orleans paired with the histories of companies that have helped shape the city.
An illustrated history of New Orleans paired with the histories of companies that have helped shape the city.
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such a complex project to completion,<br />
Canizaro had to reckon with many competing<br />
interests, not least of which were<br />
the concerns of preservationist groups<br />
about a development bordering on the<br />
Historic French Quarter. Only by bringing<br />
all interested parties together and<br />
seeking common ground, could a massive<br />
civic project of this kind be successfully<br />
realized.<br />
Canizaro was the first developer to recognize<br />
the potential of the Poydras Street<br />
corridor for a generation of new office<br />
buildings, shopping centers and hotels. It<br />
houses three Canizaro developments: 400<br />
Poydras/Texaco Center, Lykes Center and<br />
the LL&E Tower. Completed in 1984,<br />
400 Poydras/Texaco is a thirty-two-story<br />
office tower that originally housed the<br />
regional headquarters of Texaco, USA.<br />
The Lykes Center is a twenty-two-story<br />
office building that housed Lykes Bros.<br />
Steamship Company. It now is home to a leading<br />
hotel. The LL&E Tower, which is now First<br />
Bank and Trust Tower, completed in 1987<br />
with its thirty-six stories, remains one of the<br />
most stunningly designed buildings in the city.<br />
Further examples, among others too<br />
numerous to discuss in detail, of the diverse<br />
projects Columbus Properties has brought to<br />
fruition over the years are the First Bank<br />
Center in Metairie (formerly known as the<br />
Galleria); the Information Technology Center<br />
Office Complex (consisting of four 5-story<br />
office buildings and parking garage) at the<br />
University of <strong>New</strong> Orleans Research and<br />
Technology Park; the American Tower in<br />
Shreveport; and the Crowne Plaza Hotel in<br />
<strong>New</strong> Orleans, which was a joint venture<br />
between the Holiday Corporation and Joseph<br />
C. Canizaro Interests.<br />
Tradition is a new master-planned community<br />
of 4,800 acres on the Mississippi Gulf<br />
Coast, just north of Biloxi and Gulfport, which<br />
demonstrates the scope of Canizaro and the<br />
firm’s vision and interests. Ambitiously was<br />
designed as “a sustainable new community<br />
<br />
Top: LL&E Tower, 1987.<br />
Bottom: LL&E Tower entrance with<br />
sculptures by Enrique Alferez.<br />
BUILDING A GREATER NEW ORLEANS<br />
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