New Orleans City Guide

Southern part of swamp fire in eastern New Orleans extingished, Fire Department says

The New Orleans Fire Department announced today that it has extinguished a fire that consumed 4.27 square miles of swampy land on the southern edge of the mostly undeveloped, 2,000-acre Pine Island property owned by developer John Cummings.

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Unused Hammond hospital goes on block (WWL-TV, Channel 4 New Orleans)

HAMMOND, La. — According to court records, a private Hammond hospital built three years ago but never opened will be sold at auction in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Orleans on Dec. 9. Louisiana Hospital Center LLC’s facility was built in 2006 on property owned by the Hammond Area Economic and Industrial Development District. Construction was paid for through $15 million in bond financing and …

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