3/18/1992 $130,000 $0
4/16/2004 $0 $0
8/10/1995 $960,000 $0
1/11/2000 $0 $0
12/19/2001 $1,750,000 $0
3/15/1973 $0 $12,500
0000000 $00000000000 $61,452
12/8/1998 $200,000 $0
5/18/1995 $0 $0
8/2/2001 $384,000 $122,773
9/25/1997 $0
9/25/1997 $0
12/2/2005 $3,300,000 $330,000
12/2/2005 $3,300,000 $0
12/2/2005 $3,300,000 $0
2/7/2007 $145,000
3/3/2004 $1,500,000 $150,000
15-Oct-02 $150,000 $15,000
7-Dec-08 $1,100,000 not showing
3/12/1993 $150,000 $46,270
7/20/1994 $421,000 $34,240
15-Jan-05 $825,000 $0
15-Jan-05 $825,000 $0
15-Jan-05 $825,000 $11,020
15-Jan-05 $825,000 $1,820
15-Jan-05 $825,000 $2,100
15-Jan-05 $825,000 $6,560
5/18/1995 $0 $0

102 102 013
102 102 102
102 102 105
102 103 406
102 103 405
102 102 815
102 103 510
102 102 814
103 101 002
102 100 701
102 100 801

104100718
102 102 016
103 102 302
000 000 000
102 102 101
104 100 702
104 100 724
105 100 726
105 100 727
105 100 914
105101214
105101201
104 101 113
104 101 113
104 101 113
104100907
208 100 313
37W 100 401

39W 100 501
39W 100 601
39W 105 617
39W 105 617
39W 105 617
39W 105 602
39W 105 605
39W 105 604
105 100 727

2. when you do the tax bill research, note that several properties do not have tax bills!?!?!

3. Also look up property owned in business names and you will find more valuable properties: 501 Elysian Fields!!!!!!!!!!!

# loc. address owner 1 Sale Date Sale Price tax bill $
1 A 1050 Annunciation St MR. JOHN J CUMMINGS ET AL 5/3/2002 $360,000 $37,613
2 1110 Annunciation MR. SEAN CUMMINGS ET A 12/19/2001 $1,750,000 $0
3 1128 Annunciation MR. SEAN CUMMINGS,ET AL 12/19/2001 $1,750,000 $0
4 1041 Constance St MR. JOHN J CUMMINGS ET AL 7-Jul-88 $398,000 $19,270
5 1053 Constance St CUMMINGS ETALS JOHN 7-Jul-88 $398,000 $18,385
6 1110 Constance St MR. JOHN J CUMMINGS ET AL 7-Jul-88 43857 $1,466
7 1111 Constance St CUMMINGS ETALS JOHN 7-Jul-88 $42,880 $6,038
8 1114 Constance St MR. JOHN J CUMMINGS ET AL 7-Jul-88 $43,857 $835
9 864 S Peters St MR. JOHN J CUMMINGS ET AL 8/1/1990 $420,000 $64,369
10 1000 S Peters St CUMMINGSJOHN ET ALS 4/22/1988 $150,000 $18,231
11 1040 S Peters St CGCD ENTERPRISES LLC 4/5/2001 $0 $103,526
12 410 Natchez Unit 1 MR. JOHN J CUMMINGS
13 329 Tchoupitoulas Ekistics, Inc 3/18/1992 $130,000 $0
14 610 Tchoupitoulas Lengsfield Lofts, LLC 4/16/2004 $0 $0
15 733 Tchoupitoulas Ekistics No.2L L C 8/10/1995 $960,000 $0
16 829 Tchoupitoulas Ekistics, Inc 1/11/2000 $0 $0
17 1101 Tchoupitoulas St MR. SEAN B CUMMINGS ET AL 12/19/2001 $1,750,000 $0
18 B 412 Gravier St MR. JOHN J CUMMINGS 3/15/1973 $0 $12,500
19 416 Gravier St MR. JOHN J CUMMINGS 0000000 $00000000000 $61,452
20 441 Gravier St Sean Cummings 12/8/1998 $200,000 $0
21 441 Gravier St ESKISTICS NO. 1 LLC 5/18/1995 $0 $0
22 523 Gravier St INTERNATIONAL HOUSE LLC 8/2/2001 $384,000 $122,773
23 607 Gravier INTERNATIONAL HOUSE LLC 9/25/1997 $0
24 609 Gravier INTERNATIONAL HOUSE LLC 9/25/1997 $0
25 316 St Charles Ave PHI NEW O, LLC, ET AL. 12/2/2005 $3,300,000 $330,000
26 320 St Charles Av PHI NEW O, LLC, ET AL. 12/2/2005 $3,300,000 $0
27 330 St Charles Ave PHI NEW O, LLC 12/2/2005 $3,300,000 $0
28 309 Magazine John Cummings 2/7/2007 $145,000
29 C 544 Esplanade Ave Sean Cummings 3/3/2004 $1,500,000 $150,000
30 601 Frenchmen St Sean Cummings 15-Oct-02 $150,000 $15,000
31 501 Elysian Fields Mercato Elisio LLC 7-Dec-08 $1,100,000 not showing
32 D 2900 Chartres St MR. SEAN B CUMMINGS ETAL 3/12/1993 $150,000 $46,270
33 3036 Chartres St Sean Cummings 7/20/1994 $421,000 $34,240
34 E 2 Mazant St John Cummings 15-Jan-05 $825,000 $0
35 3 Mazant St John Cummings 15-Jan-05 $825,000 $0
36 626 Mazant St John Cummings 15-Jan-05 $825,000 $11,020
37 4019 Chartres John Cummings 15-Jan-05 $825,000 $1,820
38 4024 Royal St John Cummings 15-Jan-05 $825,000 $2,100
39 4030 Royal John Cummings 15-Jan-05 $825,000 $6,560
40 441 Gravier St ESKISTICS NO. 1 LLC 5/18/1995 $0 $0

Let me guess, he’s got something on the side w/Riley for Mayor…that would make it all soooo much more sucky than it already is.

I saw a trash can in front of a beautifully renovated house on Burgundy Street, right next to the two story circus bicycles and bizarre bead sculptures. Instead of having the house number painted on it like all the others, it had two simple words that say it all: “Define Sketchy”.

Welcome to the neighborhood, Imports.
You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.
Yeah, you right.

I know Kabacoff has plans for an all organic co-op at The Healing Center, right next to the St Claude Community Center (another empty room in an empty building, except for the cops who blast their stereos in the middle of the night), but we little folk might not be able to read those esoteric labels or afford hydroponic white bread. Vegan pork chops just aren’t for everybody. Ya heard?

Of course, working all day in Sean’s office building, and then going directly to Sean’s ’boutique hotel’ bar, in between monthly meetings at Sean’s ’boutique hotel meeting room’ for stories about their conquests, how the hell would they know what’s going on in the city they’re “reinventing”?

Maybe those artists they import can bring them some groceries, too.
I sure as hell ain’t feeding a bunch of Boss Hoog’s suck-up clowns.
Let them eat cake.
I’m sure Sean has a bakery somewhere, too.

Wow. The New York Times is certainly on the ball! In such an agrarian area as New Orleans, who would have ever thought we would be able to create so many nonfarm jobs! Yay us!

“Jon Guidroz, 27, is one of the entrepreneurs who was persuaded to move to the city. He grew up in New Orleans but was living in Massachusetts and working for Free Flow Power, a renewable energy company, after Katrina hit. “I wanted to return to help,” he said. But he said he did not see a strong business reason to move.

Then, last year, Sean Cummings, a real estate developer and entrepreneur in New Orleans, randomly found Free Flow’s Web site and noticed that the company had a Mississippi River project in the works.”

Wait… Guidroz worked for a company developing a Mississippi River project but couldn’t see a reason to move here? Was he not aware that the Mississippi River ran through New Orleans? Must be one of the 80% of our school children who graduate high school without being able to read a map. Yeah, that’s the kind of brilliant mind we need here in our city.

“After work, many of the young businesspeople gather for drinks at International House, the boutique hotel in the central business district that Mr. Cummings opened 10 years ago across the street from his loft building. Mr. Cummings and Mr. Perkin also hold monthly meetings at the hotel in which business owners can share war stories and vent.”

Nothing like kissing the feet of your anointed saviour, eh kids? Thousands of venues to meet-up for a drink, or hear a band and blow off the after-work steam, but they all scurry dutifully to Boss Cummings’ place to show their loyalty. But then If I was given six months rent-free and a briefcase of start-up capital I suppose I’d kiss Sean’s ass too. Wouldn’t you?

For someone who claims a love for New Orleans, Sean Cummings has certainly gone out of his way to ignore it’s people since he’s recruiting “talent” form everywhere but here. I guess that’s why he’s giving us the bike paths.

I may actually vomit.

How joyful a quality of life will it be when you run us all out of our homes with your $1800 a month apartment rent?

Is decimating a beautifully growing culture, many of whom came back after The Storm and rebuilt even RENTAL PROPERITES, just to have a place to live and some local pride REALLY a “home-run success story”?

Like Prauge after the curtain?
Really?
Are you fucking kidding me?
Are we now graying hooded figures, crawling from the wreckage and toothlessly grinning at the Hot Water Soup that SEAN CUMMINGS, Miracle Saviour, is doling out out of his magic bucket, as he stands atop the Ruins Of The Horrid Past, cape rippling behind him as the flag rises?
Excuse me, I AM going to vomit.

Do any of these wonderful new money grubbing entrepeneurs have a clue what happened after the Reinvention of the Bay Area?
Suburban housing prices rose to a par with Beverly Hills, homelessness spread like a cold at camp during spin the bottle week, small businesses folded, unable to pay ’boutique’ rents (boutique means add a zero in French, I think).

Seattle? Over populated, crammed full of franchise businesses and of course, home to Starbucks, who will no doubt own many souls here before it’s said & done.

I only want to see the New Orleans Space Needle if it’s a pike with Cummings severed head on it.

Cummings and City Council members were cautious about prematurely committing the project to one developer “because we don’t want to create false hope,” said Cummings. (someone needs a Raycation)

“We’ve gotten into trouble before in this city by getting into agreements with developers that are undercapitalized,” said Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson, Councilwoman at-large.

Nolatown’s proposed mixed-retail development will be 100 percent privately funded.

Ed Blakely, director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration, said the project is better controlled by private funds because the city cannot be blamed for the project not moving forward.

###
Back to the riverfront development project, this update was provided at the June 2009 Board meeting of the Southeast Lousiana Flood Protection Authority -east. Forgive me if this was already posted or reported earlier.

CBGB monies (read hurricane recovery funds) to the tune of $30MM?? That could have funded the city’s entire commitment to the “soft second mortgage program with money to spare for another extension to the Ciber contract.
Comparing the map of Cummings holdings with where the Phase 1 access points and improvements seems to validate whats been said here. Of cource this could all still be coincidental. And that trout could have grown up in my milk.

http://www.slfpae.com/minutes/09June18%20SLFPA-E%20Board%20Meeting%20Minutes.pdf

3. Riverfront Development Project.
Mr. John Barry introduced Allen Eskew. Mr. Eskew is a leading, award winning architect who has been involved with the riverfront for a number of years. Mr. Barry stated that the Reinventing the Crescent project will do much for the quality of life of the local citizenry and for the resurgence of New Orleans.
8
Mr. Eskew explained that the master plan for Reinvesting the Crescent was completed last spring and includes six miles of riverfront from the Jackson Avenue Ferry (upriver) to the Holy Cross Levee (downriver). The master plan sets a development frame work for recovery. The master plan client is the New Orleans Building Corporation. The project is funded with Community Block Grant Funding through the LRA, as the fiduciary manager of the funds, for the City of New Orleans through the New Orleans Building Corporation. Federal funding of $30 million was received for Phase 1 which stretches from the foot of Esplanade Avenue to Manzant Street (about 1.5 miles).
Mr. Eskew advised that the Phase 1A project boundary includes about 40 acres (1.5 miles) of real estate. Approximately 1.25 miles or 20 acres of park area remains after the railroad footprint and batture are removed. The portion of the Mandeville Street Wharf that was burned in a fire a few days after Hurricane Katrina has been removed.
Half of the Piety Street Wharf was saved during a major fire on May 15th. An elevated pedestrian ramp will be constructed at the foot of Esplanade Avenue. The ramp will go over the rail corridor and the floodwall and into the remaining portion of the Mandeville Street Wharf, which will become a 60,000 square foot covered pavilion. The 15 foot zone required by the Orleans Levee District and the 23 foot clearance required by the railroad has been maintained in the design of the elevated pedestrian ramp at Esplanade Avenue and the proposed elevated stair crossing at Piety Street. Mr. Eskew showed renderings of the proposed elevated walkway, park, gardens, playground and elevated stairway. A 20 foot pedestrian promenade will be maintained through the project site. One new walkout pier will be introduced at Gallier Street. In order to maintain bank stability, Mr. Eskew is working with the USACE relative to landscaping. Thirteenth public meetings have been held on the plan. Information is posted on the web site http://www.neworiverfront.com.
Mr. Eskew was requested to contact Stevan Spencer, SLFPA-E Regional Chief Engineer, concerning regulatory review by the Authority.
Mr. Eskew advised that the regulatory review package would be submitted today to the USACE. Eustis Engineering has completed the bank stability analysis. The environmental review is in its last week. The design criteria has been negotiated with the Public Belt Railroad. After bids are received, construction is estimated to start by the middle of December and be completed in 18 months. The total gross funding is $30 million; however, the net funding for construction is approximately $23.5 million.

Advanced discussions are being held with the Audubon Institute concerning long term maintenance of the park. One hundred percent of the property in the project has been deemed surplus maritime by the Port of New Orleans. The project was developed in complete coordination with the Port and no surrendering of active maritime space has
taken place.

it’s obvious these developers have no idea what it means to
live in New Orleans. shameful.

Gosh, New Orleans could be “like a smaller Seattle.” How appealing. How nice that these carpetbaggers– I mean, enterpreneurs– are here to reinvent our community out from under us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/business/smallbusiness/30sbiz.html

Dig the NYC-centric obsession with our city’s low, low rents and low, low cost of living… why, one woman found an apartment here for only 1800 dollars a month!!! Shit, who said there’s an affordable housing crisis??! Not for these (white rich yankee-mentality) go-getters!

Step aside, poor people! step aside, locals! Roll out the red carpet for the new new new new orleans!

Speaking of which, if you’ve looked at the RIC brochure available from the link somewhere above, I noticed something interesting. All the proposed projects are lush, green and colorful. The proposed buildings are a shining, pure white. The parts of the city that will remain untouched are an ugly, drab gray. (The river, however, is portrayed in it’s accurate, festive brown!)

This is one of those marketing tricks that people use to make whatever they’re selling look better than it actually is, like the big eight-inch tall Big Mac in the commercial with the dew-dappled tomatoes and crisp green lettuce. How often does the soggy, smashed thing you unwrap resemble the ad? Beware!

(I just realized I used the word dappled after you Elspeth. Please don’t sue me for plagiarism! :) )

Whatever the developers are smoking, I sure wish they’d pass it ’round thisa way.

Oh, what the hell.
Why not spend eleventy kabillion dollars on a ‘water’s edge’ Dream Village? We can’t afford flood protection, anyway….

http://www.nolatown.com/

Of course, those members of the NOBC knew all of this long before The Plan was released to the public.

Notice how many of Cummings properties, albiet Cummngs Sr as Jr’s proxy, lie within the pink, extra special zone, recieving the highest economic development of all….

Every single one.

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/81/l_8284368fda7f4c959287dd076394409b.jpg

I can agree to disagree about the ethical bounderies here, with you or anyone else. If I see it as underhanded, as you point out so truthfully, so what? It’s not like I’ll tarnish his giant reputation machine from my little keyboard. I am but a voice crying out in the wilderness.

Whatever happens next with Cummings, the city needs to stop allowing idiots to appoint fools, crooks endorsing theives, on & on & on. Of course, now I’m really sounding delusional.
Never.
Going.
To happen.

By the way, I never suggested Press was between Mimi’s and Frenchman or whatever. I know the neighborhood in the dark, drunk & blindfolded. I was merely suggesting that if you were a Mimi’s regualr you would certainly know those warehouses across from NOCCA, a few blocks down river, just past Montegut.

And personally, I think when he gets approved to turn one of those things into condos next to the park he, as Director, planned, he’ll make a shitload of money off of a corrupt, preplanned, and unethical scheme, foisted on all of us by skating around the edges, establishing a controling foothold in the neighborhood, where he’ll begin to act out “His Plan”. And nobody will say a word.

But that’s just my opinion.
We’ll have to wait & see.

The road to bankruptcy court is paved with the portfolios of speculators. Especially those who served on a board or directed a major project that was never completed. Were those properties undesirable in the first place? Would they only gain value if a major development occurred? If he can prove he’d make money either way, he’s got an out. (On the other hand, if he’s accrued heavy debt making these purchases, and will only make a profit if the project succeeds, then he has motive. I just don’t think you’ll find that.)

And how many cities have redeveloped their riverfronts in the past decades? How many cities have experienced property-value rise in more historic neighborhoods used as local arts & commerce centers? He doesn’t have to do much to prove either reasonable doubt or financial interest independent of the project’s success.

Once the only thing to discuss is his margin of profit, and the city gets a park next to the river, you’ll be hard pressed to nail him to the wall, distatasteful as his tactics may be. I mean, what is the worst they can do to him, remove him from the project leadership? Do they stop the project just to spite him at this point?

In addition to that, state Ethics rules being so easy to get around only guarantee he won’t get caught.

And Press is not between Mimi’s and Frenchman.