First Post-Katrina 'Sustainable Building' Project Breaks Ground in New Orleans

HomeAid, the country's leading non-profit developer of transitional housing, has joined forces with Tulane University's School of Architecture to initiate the first post-Katrina sustainable building project in the City of New Orleans, where much attention is being placed on the opportunity to rebuild better, smarter and more efficiently for the future. The project, a 4,400 square foot, two-story Family Center that will house families displaced by the hurricane, breaks ground today and is being privately funded through a $3 million partnership between HomeAid and Ameriquest Mortgage Company and its affiliates Argent Mortgage Company and AMC Mortgage Services. The Family Center will be built on the site of the historic New Orleans Rescue Mission, located one quarter mile southeast of the Louisiana Superdome at 1130 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard. New Orleans-based JaRoy Construction, Inc. will build the project, while Perez APC is serving as the project's architectural director, working in conjunction with Tulane University.

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