Narrative & Approach

Approach & Strategy

Our team has taken time to put together an initial visual concept for the comprehensive development of the 162-acre site along with a list of those items to be included in the 65-acre detached site both labeled by the City Planning Commission as IDB owned and City of New Orleans use determined.

The approach taken for the redevelopment of main Six Flags/Jazzland site is to place expected high volume automobile traffic destined for the new development off of the I-510 exit onto the major Lake Forest Blvd entrance to the site. These high-volumes of automobiles will enter the lower end of the site to a public waterpark, an RV park, and big-box retail uses immediately off of Lake Forest Blvd. As you enter the site from either Lake Forest Boulevard or on Michoud Boulevard, the center of the site would be developed to include an outdoor amphitheater, a 3-part performance venue, a hotel, and athletic playing venues. To the upper end of the site, the design team has located single family and multi-family housing in the form of townhouses, single family houses, multi-story
apartment towers, and apartments above retail spaces located on the first level of 5-story buildings surrounding a water taxi and water recreation peninsula. The complex of buildings is serviced by fast in and out automated parking buildings to service the entire community of buildings on the self-sustaining campus of uses.

The concept is visually attractive and is expected to draw from 2.5-hour drive time from the development as a destination. The concept also serves the New Orleans East community and is intended to be a 24-hour active development making it safer for the residents and for visitors alike.

The 65-acre parcel located along I-10 at the intersection of I-10 and I-510 will house active uses such as a Wave Pool, ATV Park and BMX Bike Park. Our team will pay attention to the sounds generated by such uses and their effects on surrounding communities. Our initial thoughts are that the Interstate Highways adjacent to the site generate sound that would be more noise producing than the uses we are anticipating and will modify any affects with baffles or screening to be sensitive to any existing communities that may be affected.

Along with these active uses just mentioned, our programmed plan for the 65-acre site will include job-creating industries to further bolster both New Orleans East’s and the City’s economy. One industry includes a Coatings & Paint Manufacturer, who will upon award to SDC immediately open a sizable Warehousing and Sales facility with the intention of building a sustainable, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility when demand warrants. The SDC team has further identified a gap in the film industry offerings of our State that will make New Orleans more competitive on a National level in this KEY INDUSTRY. The proposed studio will be unique to
our City and State.

A portion of the 65-acre site will become the home of a Full-Service Police Station and Fire Station for the City of New Orleans. We anticipate that these two valuable service components could enter and exit onto Michoud Boulevard and possibly later have direct access to the interstate system for quicker access to other surrounding communities when needed. These city services will be needed more as the Situs Development matures into a community of uses to serve New Orleans
East generally and the Six Flags/Jazzland Development in particular.

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