Ice House Residences Condos New Orleans Warehouse District 408 Andrew Higgins New Orleans, La 70130 New Project on the drawing Boards
The IceHouse Residences is a massive project across the street from the present Cottonmills Condos. It is on the drawing boards for 2006 having to overcome a few developement hurdles. This will be a 60 million dollar project by HRI Properties. This will be the largest new construction project to date for the historic New Orleans Warehouse District. The project will be a combination of a 6 story parking garage which will also be leased parking for the Cottonmills and the Ice Castle project. The 10 story building with have 221 apartments and 105 condos plus some retail space. The condo prices are to begin at $325 per square foot. At first glance this sounds steep but this is new construction and everything will be new. The Large 360,000-square-foot building will "blend into the historic fabric" of the New Orleans Warehouse District. This will be the second project to use pre-cast concrete covered with brick. The buildings can be built faster and with greater strength. The first pre cast being the 31 unit Mills Row Condos behind the Fibre Mills.
The IceHouse Residences will have a mix of rentals and condo units. The rentals will be on floors 1-6 with rents starting in the $900s to $1700s range. There have been numerous conversions of rental units in Warehouse District from apartments to condos and this should fill a need for rentals. The side facing the Cottonmills on Poeyfarre will be about 50 ft. tall while the tower portion along Andrew Higgins Boulevard will rise to 100 ft. The 6-10 floors will be the condos ranging in price from about 250k to 450k and in size for 770 sq. ft. to 1250 sq. ft. The units will have a large parking garage where space can be leased. Amenities will likely include an exercise room, pool, courtyard area, security and some nice common areas. Talbot Realty will be the sellers agent on the project.
Plans for an $85 million, 10-story luxury condominium and apartment building in the Warehouse District have won the New Orleans City Planning Commission's endorsement despite an unusual dispute that pitted the developers against residents of another building they manage.
HRI Properties, the high-profile development company led by Pres Kabacoff, wants to build a 357,000-square-foot building with 221 apartments on the lower five floors, 105 condos on the upper five floors and a 509-space parking garage. The project would include most of the block bounded by Andrew Higgins Drive and Constance, Poeyfarre and Annunciation streets.
Most of the 2-acre site is now a parking lot, but plans call for demolishing a small Pelican Ice & Cold Storage building at Andrew Higgins and Annunciation. The building would lend its name to the new project, to be called the IceHouse Residences, with an official address of 408 Andrew Higgins.
HRI hopes to start construction by June, with the garage to be completed within a year and the residential building within 18 months.
The project needs a conditional-use permit and several other city approvals, including an 18-foot waiver to the normal 100-foot height limit and a waiver of the normal limit of 225 spaces for such a project.
The building's 509-space, six-story garage at Poeyfarre and Constance would provide 190 spaces for residents of the Cotton Mill condo building across the street, a 19th century warehouse that HRI converted to residential use several years ago and still manages. Yet Cotton Mill residents expressed the only opposition to the new project when the Planning Commission held a public hearing in late November.
At the time, several residents said they had only recently learned of the plans for the new building. Until they could review the specifics, they said, they could not be sure whether they would support or oppose the project.
But at least two Cotton Mill residents, Kevin Brown and Dorothy Clyne, expressed outright opposition.
Brown said the building would be too large and almost twice as high as surrounding buildings. He said adding so many units also could cause traffic problems in an already congested neighborhood and suggested requiring even more parking spaces than are planned.
Clyne agreed, saying the IceHouse Residences would be twice as high as the Cotton Mill and the nearby Woodward apartments building, also run by HRI, and would block the view of many Cotton Mill units.
The project almost covers the entire block bounded by Andrew Higgins Boulevard, Poeyfarre, Constance and Annunciation streets. The site once housed the Ice House Cold Storage Co., which burned to the ground.
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