{"id":4792,"date":"2014-10-07T13:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T18:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2015-01-07T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T16:20:28","slug":"harmony-neighborhood-development-revitalizes-the-la-salle-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/harmony-neighborhood-development-revitalizes-the-la-salle-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony Neighborhood Development Revitalizes The La Salle Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/171073158&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Harmony Neighborhood Development focuses on the revitalization of Central City New Orleans. By eliminating blight, constructing high-quality homes, providing homeownership services, and developing small-scale commercial areas, Harmony partners with residents in the development of a vibrant Central City.\u00a0 The La Salle Corridor is a key site of community empowerment, economic inclusion, and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Woods has had a barbershop on La Salle Street since 1971.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe street down there \u2014 a lot of people visit this street because you can go all the way to Canal Street on the street right there without getting off,\u201d Woods explains.\u00a0 \u201cYou see people riding bicycles. They be going, walking down this-a way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woods says the recent changes happening along the La Salle Corridor are positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be good for good business. &#8216;Cause anytime something grows in this area it\u2019s helped me out, helped them out. Each business gonna help somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outside Woods\u2019 barbershop, Una Anderson, executive director of\u00a0Harmony Neighborhood Development, points across the street. \u201cOn the La Salle Corridor a few of the buildings still stand but a lot of the buildings are gone,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo this is Harmony Oaks, we were the local partner on Harmony Oaks. It\u2019s the redevelopment of CJ Peete public housing site.\u201d Known to many as the Magnolia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the project on Harmony Oaks we were able to build 55 offsite home ownership houses and then sell them,\u201d explains Anderson. \u201cMost of the families we sold to were from the neighborhood. So we\u2019re very excited about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few blocks farther down La Salle, we come to the\u00a0Dew Drop Inn\u00a0\u2014 a combination nightclub, barbershop, hotel and restaurant, which from the late 1930\u2019s through 1960\u2019s, was one of the most popular music venues in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dew Drop is the heartbeat of La Salle,\u201d says Anderson. \u201cAnd if we can bring that heartbeat back, then we have a good chance of bringing the rest of the corridor back in the way that we all care about. And that way really has to do with making sure that the economic benefit of this revitalization goes to the legacy owners \u2014 the families that have owned on La Salle, to the residents who have lived in this neighborhood for a long time, to make sure that we do it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musicians like Ray Charles, Dave Bartholomew, Little Richard and James Booker regularly graced the Dew Drop\u2019s stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarl King really, really supported the Dew Drop,\u201d says Kenneth Jackson, owner of the Dew Drop and grandson of Frank Painia, the original owner. \u201cAfter my grandfather had passed, he knew that I was running the place he always encouraged me to &#8216;Hang on, hang on. You know, something\u2019s going to give for you. Just hold on. Don\u2019t get rid of that place.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u2014 where we are right now, this is the hotel lobby. This is the office space right here. The window was right there. It was a hotel, the club, the restaurant, and the barbershop. The restaurant was a 24-hour operation. It never closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do now is not only put it back on the map for the entertainment portion of it but we\u2019re trying to give back to the city. We\u2019re trying to raise some of these youth to be productive citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the help of Harmony Neighborhood Development, Kenneth Jackson is not only turning the Dew Drop back into a music venue, he\u2019s also partnering with a youth-led organization, the\u00a0Milne Inspiration Center, to turn the Dew Drop into a workforce development site where adolescents can apprentice as barbers and train in the hospitality industry. Harmony is helping make the Dew Drop a place where education happens in community and across generations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to preserve history and put a new twist to it,\u201d says Jackson. \u201cTry to point some of our youngsters in the right direction. That\u2019s the ultimate to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because when it comes to revitalizing the La Salle corridor, there\u2019s a lot of history alongside hopes for a bright future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation. To learn more about Harmony Neighborhood Development, click <a title=\"Harmony Neighborhood Development\" href=\"http:\/\/harmonynola.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmony Neighborhood Development focuses on the revitalization of Central City New Orleans. 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