WDSU Investigates: Neighbors, council upset at condition of

WDSU Investigates: Neighbors, council upset at condition of old hospital, developer promises action


WDSU Investigates: Neighbors, council upset at condition of old hospital, developer promises action
Just minutes from downtown on the edge of the famed Irish Channel, stands a building that people have started to downright despise: the old Sara Mayo Hospital.
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Updated: 6:43 PM CDT Jul 14, 2021
WDSU Investigates: Neighbors, council upset at condition of old hospital, developer promises action
Just minutes from downtown on the edge of the famed Irish Channel, stands a building that people have started to downright despise: the old Sara Mayo Hospital.
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Updated: 6:43 PM CDT Jul 14, 2021
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THAT THING IS A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN. GINA: IT IS RUN DOWNND RAGGED, THE OLD HOSPITAL AT THE EDGE OF THE IRISH CHANNEL IN NEW ORLEANS ISN’T JUST AN EYESORE, IT’S SOAL SAA FETY HAZARD, ACCORDING TO CITY LEADERS, AND THEY INSIST THEY’RE DOING ALL THEY TON TRY AND GET THE OWNERS TO ACT BEFORE THE SITUATION GETS RSWO SULA: HERE’S WDSU’S TRAVERS MACKEL WITH THE FRUSTRATIONS AND CONCERNS AT THE OLD SARA MOAY HOSPITAL, IN THIS WDSU INVESTIGATES REPORT, CRUMBLI HOPE. TRAVERS: THEOO RF IS RIPPED UP, WALLS ARE WRECKED, AND OTHEN GROUNDS OF THIDIS LAPIDATED PROPERTY, JUST MINUTES FROM DOWNTOWN, ON THE EDGE OF THE FAMED IRISH CHANNEL, STANDS A BUILDING THAT PEOPLE HAV STARTED TO DOWNRIGHT DESPI.SE >> THAT IS THE OLD SARA MOAY HOSPITAL. TRAVERS: BUT THERE’S NO HEALING HERE ANYMORE, IT’S BEEN SHUTTERED FOR DECA PAULA CARSON WALKS HER DOGS PAST IT EVERY DAY. >> HONEY, THAT THING IS A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN TRAVERS: NO DISASTER, BUT RECENTLY, DANGEROUS DEBRIS FELL FROM THE TOP, PROMPTING TYCI LEADER TO PUT UP THESE BARRICADES ALONG THE SIDEWALON JACKSON AVENUE SO NO ONE WALKS NEAR THIS PART OF THE BUILDI. >> I GUESS ANYONE WHO GOES UP TO THE PROPERTY, THEY DO’'T KNOW WHAT’S GOING FALL DOWN. -- WHAT IS GNGOI TO FALL DN.OW TRAVERS: THEY ARE NEW RIDESENTS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. >> WE WERE AS LITTLE SURPRISED WHEN WE MOVED HERE AND STAED NAVIGATING THE AREA, BUT JUST KIND OF AVOID WALKING OVER THERE. >> THE CHILDREN DO GO UP THERE TO TAG IT AND TO PARTY AND IIST A HAZARD. TRAVERS: ONE CITY HALL IS WELL AWARE .OF >> THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS AND IT IS VERY, VERY FRUSTRATING. TRAVERS: NEW ORLEANS COUNCILMAN JAY BANKS REPRESENTS THE AREA AROUND THE OLD SARAH MAYO HOSPITAL. >> I WAS BORN IN THIS HOSPITAL. TRERS: HIS DISTRICT ALSO COVERS THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THE DECAYING PLAZA TOWERTAS. S WDSU INVESTIGATES FIRST TALKED WITH HIM IN MAY ABOUT E DETERIORATING CONDITIONS AT THAT PROPERTY A TNDHE CITY’S SEEMING INABILITY TO FORCE SOME ACTION. DAYS AFTER OUR REPORTSIR, A DEBRIS FELL FROM THE PLAZA TOWER, INJURING ONE PERSONND A SHUTTING DOWN SOME MAJOR STREETS IN THAT AREA FOR WEE. BANKS SAY THE SITUATIONS ARE SOMEWHAT SIMILAR, AS BOTH BUILDINGS ARE PRIVATELY OWNED. THE KAILIS FAMILY REAL ESTATE GROUP OWNS THIS ONE. >> THERE IS NOTHING THAT WE NCA DO TO FORCE THEM TO DO, THEY GOT RIGHTS AND THIS IS AMERICA. TRAVERS: BUT IT APPEARS THAT THE CITY HAS APPLIED SOME PRESSURE RECORDS OBTAINED BY WDSU INVESTIGATES SHOW THE CITY FINING THE KAILIS GROUP $5200 LAST JULY AND TAINCKG ON AN ADDITIONAL $15,000 IN ILDA FINES, A TOTAL OF $20,000 OWED AND NO RESPONSE. >> THEY HAVE NOT TOLD ME ANYTHING. WE HAVE MEAD CALLS AND GOTTEN NO RETURN CALLS. TRAVERS: SO WE WENT TOHE T OFFICE WHERE A SPOKESPERSON SHOWED US SOME ARTIST DRAWISNG AND INSISTED THEY ARE PLANNING TO DEVELOP THE PROPERTY. >> HAD NOT BEEN FOR COVID, IT WOULD BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION NOW. THEY HAVE PLSAN DEVELOPED, THEY HAVE ALL THE PERMITTING THEY NEED. THEY ARE ANXIOUS TO GET GOING. >> THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH A PROCESS TO HAVET I PUT BACK INTO USE AND THEY HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO PROCEED WITH THAT. THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH A PROCESS, THEY HAD A CONDITIONAL USE APPROVED TO MAKE IT HOUSING AND HAVE DONE NOTHING WITH THAT. TRAVERS: IN LIGHT OF THE TRACGI SITUATNIO IN SURFSIDE, FLORIDA WHERE THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF A COLLAPSED BUILDING IS AT THE CENTER OF A NATIALON DISCUSSION AND LESS THAN TWO MONTHS AFTER PARTSF ONEW ORLEANS OLDEST -- WNE ORLEANS’ OLDEST SKYSCRAPER FELL, THERE ARE CONCERNS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE SOME SAY THEY ARE ANYTHING BUT LUCKY ON THE EDGE OF THE IRISH CHANNEL. IT SHOULD TELL PEOPLE THAT WE CAN NO LONGER IGNORE EDIFACES LIKE THIS THAT HAVE BEEN SITTING EMPTY FOR DECADES. TRAVERS: TRAVERS MACKEL, WU NEWS. SULA: IF THE KAILAS NAME SOUNDS FAMILIAR, IT’S BECAUSE THEY ALSO OWN THE PROPERTY WHERE THE HARD ROCK HOTEL COLLAPSED IN 2019. REGARDING THE DELAPIDATED SARA MAYO PROPERTY, THE KAILAS OUGR SAYS ITS PLAN TO REDEVELOP THAT SITE INCLUDES MO TREHAN 200 APARTMENTS AND CONDOS AND EROV 17,000 SQUARE FEET OF

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