By this fall, New Orleans convention attendees will be able to gather in a 7.5-acre urban park that will offer them a place to sit and relax, ride bikes, take walks and cool off with a misting system and plenty of shade.
For that to happen, the team constructing the $50- million project has been working to convert existing traffic lanes and sidewalks into the linear park, which spans the entire length of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The team has had to come up with plans to rework traffic patterns and coordinate utilities based on outdated maps. Throughout construction, the project team also relied on careful construction phasing to maintain operations at the convention center, which has been converted to a makeshift hospital to house patients recovering from COVID-19.