Buildings To Combine In Retail-Residential New Orleans Project

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three mostly vacant buildings at the corner of Canal and Camp streets will be combined into one luxury apartment building with retail shops in a $15 million project.

The Times-Picayune reports the project by the firm Woodward Design+Build brings together 600 Canal St., 604 Canal and 113-117 Camp St. into one development.

The development will have 44 apartments and 8,000 square feet of retail space.

Construction of the project — branded as the Giani Building — is expected to be completed by the beginning of 2015.