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Our Views: Slow down on large state borrowing for Avondale site

Por: The Advocate Opinion January 22, 2023

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No one would be displeased if a big redevelopment project should turn  into a world-class shipping site.We , and still hope so.But a proposed $445 million purchase of the Jefferson Parish site by the Port of South Louisiana raises a lot of questions.Starting with, whose idea was this anyway?The port commissioners from just upriver apparently did not inform their supposedly friendly competitors at the Port of New Orleans, which has traditionally... + full article



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