North Jefferson Avenue just to the west of the new National Geospatial Mapping Agency, which listening to politicians in our city will be our new Lord and Savior when it opens, has gotten a facelift. I don’t like it. The street is not designed for the residents of the neighborhoods nearby (surprise, surprise); a large median has been built down the middle of the street, cutting off access for many of the smaller side streets in the JeffVanderLou and St. Louis Place. North Jefferson is now a highway for getting NGA employees to and from the interstate, not to serve the residents of the neighboring communities.
I parked on Howard Street, which I looked at last back in June of 2019, to capture the shot of the new North Jefferson Highway.
While the two-family house above and below is looking stable…
…wait, why is there a dog water bowl here?
The beautiful house just to the west has deteriorated badly.
Look at all the investment the NGA is bringing to the neighborhood!
The church at the corner is still well-maintained and standing.
Will the NGA be paying taxes on their property? Isn’t that at least better than non-tax paying, LRA owned, deteriorating buildings that for the past however many years had not had a ‘revival’?
The NGA is a federal agency, so all of that land has been permanently lost as tax-paying land. The earnings tax is a wash, as the employees were already working in the city.
And remember to thank Paul McKee for his contribution