March 2016 Transactions

March 2016 Tran s a c t io n s
“Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.” – Leah Chase
OFFICE LEASES
TENANT
BUILDING
SIZE
CR BROKER(S)
BGR
K&B Plaza (New Orleans, La.)
2,413 SF
Davis (Landlord Rep) / Lavin (Tenant Rep)
Camilla Group LLC
One Canal Place (New Orleans, La.)
1,049 SF
A. Huseman (Landlord Rep)
Daybrook Fisheries Inc.
One Canal Place (New Orleans, La.)
8,220 SF
A. Huseman (Landlord Rep)
Garvey Smith Nehrbass & North LLC
Three Lakeway (Metairie, La.)
3,210 SF
Whalen (Tenant Rep) / Sossaman (Landlord Rep)
Healthplus of New Orleans LLC
433 Metairie Road (Metairie, La.)
1,555 SF
B. Sossaman (Landlord Rep)
Marian Shipping K&B Plaza (New Orleans, La.)
921 SF
Palm Energy Offshore LLC
Two Lakeway (Metairie, La.)
1,786 SF
Robert E. Landry III PLC
One Canal Place (New Orleans, La.)
427 SF
B. Davis (Landlord Rep)
B. Sossaman (Landlord Rep)
A. Huseman (Landlord Rep)
RETAIL LEASES
TENANT
LOCATION
SIZE
CR BROKER(S)
Area 53
720 Veterans Blvd (Metairie, La.)
30,000 SF
H. Wren
Dr. Peter M. Tufton
654 Terry Parkway (Gretna, La.)
1,500 SF
First Choice
4800 blk of Lapalco Blvd (Marrero, La.)
75,697 SF
Five Below
Siegen Plaza (Baton Rouge, La.)
8,046 SF
Rabin / Weber
FYE Music
Northshore Mall (Hammond, La.)
6,228 SF
S. Swan
InMotion Medical Resources LLC
2823 Bainbridge Street (Kenner, La.)
2,100 SF
R. White
John Mansfield
802 Fern Street (New Orleans, La.)
1,400 SF
K. Adler
Nails & Tanning
Belle Meade Shopping Center (Gretna, La.)
2,100 SF
R. White
OBP Enterprises
Clearview Mall (Metairie, La.)
1,707 SF
Weber / Siegel / Fawer
Ricoh USA LLC
14141 Airline Highway (Baton Rouge, La.)
3,000 SF
R. White
Sam Goody
Southland Mall (Houma, La.)
4,535 SF
S. Swan
School Leadership Center of Greater NO
401 Veterans Blvd (Metairie, La.)
1,787 SF
M. Carrone
Starbucks
Lakeside Mall (outparcel) (Metairie, La.)
1,970 SF
J. Fawer
Subway
Southland Mall (Houma, La.)
2,081 SF
S. Swan
Yours Syncerely
One Canal Place (New Orleans, La.)
641 SF
Rabin / Lavin
J. Fawer
A. Huseman
COMPLETED SALES
PROPERTY
LOCATION
SIZE
CR BROKER(S)
2520 Belle Chasse Highway
Gretna, Louisiana
33,300 SF
Siegel / Wren
3822 Elysian Fields Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana
10,000 SF
R. White
3836 Elysian Fields Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana
6,500 SF
R. White
616 Girod Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
9,950 SF
Wren / Jacobson
801 Magazine Street & 516 Julia Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
24,000 SF
8218-20 & 8222-24 Maple Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
4,400 SF
910 E Main Street
New Iberia, Louisiana
115,973 SF
H. Wren
H. Wren
M. Carrone
NEW LISTINGS
PROPERTY
LOCATION
SIZE
CR BROKER(S)
1117-1125 Josephine Street
New Orleans, La.
commercial space for lease
6,000 SF
C. Burka
209 N Broad Street
New Orleans, La.
retail / office for lease
2,900 SF
A. Huseman
2138 Magazine Street
New Orleans, La.
retail / mixed use for lease
9,000 SF
Jacobson / Burka
416-418 Girod Street
New Orleans, La.
retail space for lease
4,000 SF
Wren / Lavin
Chasing a heritage of good cooking.
201 Saint Charles Avenue, Suite 4411
New Orleans, LA 70170
504.581.5005 • www.corp-realty.com
ELLA BRENNAN
Restaurateur Extraordinaire
Ella Brennan is the matriarch of a
New Orleans family that operates
multiple restaurants, including
Commander’s Palace in New
Orleans, the one that most clearly
bears her imprimatur. Over her
career as a restaurateur, she has
made her mark with a series of
fresh and innovative concepts,
and still studies the restaurant
business avidly, staying on the
lookout for new dishes, new wines,
new ways of making a better
restaurant. She is still the superb
teacher she has always been.
Although mostly retired, she still
shows up at Commander’s Palace
as her home is right next door.
eah Chase has always been
to support the arts – this lady is a leader.
now; I owe everybody money.” She is the
an inspiration to me. Now don’t
She is the embodiment of walking the
epitome of a class act. Leah as much as
get me wrong – she’s a lot of
walk. She lives what she preaches and
anyone in this city – ever - helped bring
fun, too! I think we’re both enjoying
she preaches about her belief in the
everybody together. She did it with love,
being at that age where you can say
“common good.” And that is something
with compassion, with an occasional stern
what you really think and get away
I wish people talked about more. This
“talking to”, and of course with food.
with it. Not that either of us ever really
“me me me” take on life is the pits. Leah
bit our tongues!
never bought in to that. She gives and
gives and gives, even when she is in the
If ever there was a role model,
Leah is it. Whether she is teaching
midst of tough times.
the neighborhood children about
I remember Leah showing up
respecting a business establishment
everywhere to support everyone after
that is trying to make a living and
Katrina when she had lost everything.
supporting lots of people, or feeding
EVERYTHING. She just put her head
and advising the leaders of the civil
down and started working on coming
rights movement, or organizing citizens
back. She used to joke, “I can’t die
Chasing a heritage of good cooking
with the Legendary Leah Chase.
And on that subject, I so admire her as
well. I love the recipe in her book that uses
pickled pork with greens. Maybe it’s a
generational thing, but I love pickled pork.
It’s good with red beans too.
Just one thing, Leah, you are still
everywhere and I have slowed down and
I am younger than you. You’re making me
look bad, so – cut it out! I love ya.
– Ella Brennan
201 Saint Charles Avenue, Suite 4411
New Orleans, LA 70170
504.581.5005 • www.corp-realty.com
by Leah Chase of Dooky Chase’s Restaurant
oming up in the Depression days, Daddy always
If you have ever grown vegetables yourself, you don’t care if
planted everything. He planted greens, okra and
you grow another one in your life. Farming has got to be the
onions. I never bought an onion until I came to New
hardest thing in the world. Having grown vegetables does
Orleans. My Daddy supplied everyone with vegetables.
We always had food because Daddy planted it. Sometimes the
make you more conscious of the quality of the things you are
buying, though. There is nothing like fresh vegetables.
Needless to say, I know of many ways to cook vegetables.
My mother cooked a lot with onions and she did a pretty good
This recipe could help round out a meal or become the main
job with those things. She didn’t have all of the fancy spices.
attraction itself!
INGREDIENTS
2 lb. pickled pork, cubed
2 qt. water
4 bunches mustard greens
Water to cover greens
½ cup chopped onions
DIRECTIONS
vegetables were prepared without all of the seasoning meat.
Place pickled pork in a pot and cover
saving 2 cups of the liquid. Cut greens
with water. Let boil until meat is tender.
three or four times. Return greens to
While meat is boiling, remove all large
pot; add onions, whole red pepper,
stems from greens. Wash thoroughly,
bay leaf, the potatoes and the 2 cups
changing water two or three times.
of liquid. Remove meat from water
Place greens in large pot, just
covering with water. Bring to a boil;
let boil for 10 minutes. Drain greens,
1 whole red pepper
and add meat to the greens with one
cup of liquid from the pot. Cook for 30
minutes until potatoes are tender and
all seasonings have blended.
1 bay leaf
2 medium white potatoes,
quartered
Note: No salt is added because pickled pork is quite salty. By adding the cup of liquid
from the meat, an ample amount of salt is provided as well as enough “pot liquor”
(the name used for the liquid in which the greens are cooked). Yield: 6 servings.
Please enjoy this recipe from Dooky Chase’s and