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When floodwaters stop, home restorations begin
Two miles upriver from New Orleans’ famous French Quarter and Warehouse District lies Milan, a neighborhood that mixes family life with nightlife and architecture styles spanning centuries. “Milan is three centuries of architecture with twenty-first-century values,” says Andy Brott, local Milan glass artist and owner of BrottWorks Design Studio on Marengo St. “You will see nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century architecture, which delineates where the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina reached.” Despite its hodgepodge of old and new, elements like its cultural traditions, its canopies of trees and its long-running streetcar system keep Milan, also known by residents as Milan-Freret, characteristically New Orleans.
The streets of Milan of covered with large shade trees.
Large homes are an option in Milan.
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Award-winning restaurants and locally-grown produce
“There are something like five to ten Culinary Institute of America graduates all working within this two-block radius,” Brott says. Home of the original barbeque shrimp, Pascal’s Manale Restaurant on Napoleon Ave offers a contemporary menu that builds on the restaurant's hundred-plus years of serving the neighborhood. “There’s High Hat Café, Ancora Pizzeria, Gautreau’s. This is culinary insanity,” Brott says. “There’s really too many to list.” For the home chef, grocery options are of equally high quality. “The important thing is, in New Orleans, we don’t shop for groceries. We make groceries,” Brott says. “It’s related to having so many places for local, fresh ingredients.” Rouses, which started in 1960 in Houma, Louisiana, has two locations within the Milan/Freret area. For larger chains, the area also offers Whole Foods, Fresh Market and Winn-Dixie. The nightlife is also electric in the neighborhood, thanks to hotspots like Ms. Mae’s, a 24-hour bar at the corner of Magazine and Napoleon.
Enjoy the famous barbeque shrimp at Pascal’s Manale near Milan.
Rouses Market keeps the area stocked with locally-grown fresh produce near Milan.
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Nineteenth-century homes on high and low ground
“Magazine and St Charles have never flooded,” Brott says. “But Freret between Napoleon and Jefferson Ave is a post-Katrina, revitalized commercial corridor.” This is because the ground of the neighborhood is the lowest at its lakeside end, or the end closest to Lake Pontchartrain. “We have areas that don’t flood, that’s called The Sliver by the River, and we have areas that were under twenty feet of water during Katrina,” Brott says. “So, primarily, the neighborhood was developed from the 1870s to the 1920s. But everything lakeside of Freret was developed or restored later.” Housing styles and prices range from $200,000 for a one-bedroom condo on the riverside of St Charles to more than $2 million for a beautifully maintained Greek revival-style seven-bedroom mansion a few blocks upriver from Louisiana Ave.
Greek revival-style mansions can be found in Milan.
Condominiums are popular in Milan and the surrounding areas.
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Small parks with basketball courts and playgrounds
The Milan area has plenty of small parks. On the lakeside of Magazine St, at the Napoleon Ave intersection, Laurence Square offers basketball courts to resident ballers, as well as swing sets and a playground for the kids. For fitness enthusiasts and families, green spaces like Samuel Square and the Saratoga Playspot host playground equipment, open multi-use fields, and tennis courts.
Samuel Square has swings to swing on.
Laurence Square is a great place for families to come play.
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The parades start here
The Milan-Freret area is one of the most sought-after Mardi Gras destinations for revelers, but much of that comes from its ability to provide fun for the whole family. “As to how much family fun this neighborhood has, I would trade Christmas for Mardi Gras here,” Brott says. “It’s all about kids on ladders and families meeting for the one time a year to celebrate Mardi Gras.” Laurence Square is one of the area’s gathering points for Mardi Gras celebrations. Here, festival-goers can join the lighting of the flambeaux—torches carried by parade krewes—or watch the park’s battle of the bands. “Here, Mardi Gras is like a beach house rental on the fourth of July. It’s the peak season for everything,” Brott says. “It’s our lifeblood. It’s why we live here.”
Many public and private school options
Students of Milan have plenty of options, with Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep offering pre-kindergarten through 8th grade classes that make art and creativity a core of every subject. Lawrence D. Crocker earns a D-minus on Niche. High school students can attend Walter L. Cohen High School, which earns a C and offers gifted programs, health sciences programs, graphic design and carpentry.
Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep is an arts integrated school.
The first graduating class of Walter L. Cohen High School walked across the stage in 1953.
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Easy access to highways and public transit
Larger roads like S Claiborne Ave, Jefferson Ave, Napoleon Ave and St Charles Ave connect drivers to other parts of the city and Interstate-10. Brott says the city's public transportation is easily accessible for those who want to leave their car at home. “The streetcar system is the longest-running rail system in the US, and it’s its own self-guided tour,” Brott says. “It connects us to the French Quarter and Central District.” Along Magazine St, Freret St and Tchoupitoulas St, the city’s bus lines also have plenty of stops for residents to catch a bus that will take them to many other parts of the city.
Locals and tourists alike use the Historic streetcar for transportation in Milan.
The Claiborne Ave commercial corridor sits at the northern edge of Milan.
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On average, homes in Milan, New Orleans sell after 71 days on the market compared to the national average of 52 days. The median sale price for homes in Milan, New Orleans over the last 12 months is $500,000, up 2% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
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