Radio Ad by Smart Growth for Louisiana

Lets build a hospital now. Lets put our veterans first. Thats the message of an ad running this week on New Orleans radio stations. It introduces a creative new compromise solution to the impasse over building the badly needed new hospitals in New Orleans.

It recommends building the hospital for the Department of Veterans Affairs which has the money to build now on the site planned for LSUs teaching hospital. Thats a site which is ready for construction, even though LSU doesnt have the money to build.

So, the ad says, put the hospital thats ready to build, VA, on the virtually shovel-ready site that is controlled by LSU, which is unable to build its own new hospital because of financing problems. The site currently proposed for the VA hospital would force the demolition of a tight-knit residential community.

The ad, sponsored by Smart Growth for Louisiana, is an attempt to speed construction of the first of the two hospitals needed to drive the jobs-producing development of a biomedical economy for New Orleans: Build the VA hospital now on the site that s available and now affected by lawsuit delays.

The ad asks LSU to make way for the veterans by making the LSU site available for VA construction now.

The ad points out that New Orleans voters believe that LSU should not even be using this site in the Lower Mid-City neighborhood. The voters, according to a poll by Loyola Universitys Prof. Edward Renwick, prefer building a state-of-the-art LSU hospital inside the Charity Hospital building by a 2-to-1 margin over building the hospital in Lower Mid-City.

Smart Growth for Louisiana is a non-profit group that promotes public involvement in planning major projects, like the huge $2 billion planned construction of the LSU and VA hospitals. Smart Growth is one of 77 local and national organizations that have called for hearings by the City Council and City Planning Commission on the hospital plans; an independent analysis that would compare reusing Charity to other alternatives; and inclusion of the proposed hospitals in the citys Master Plan.

For more information go to:
http://www.SaveCharityHospital.com
http://www.smartgrowthla.org/

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[cgd8602]

Keyword the preferred site for the VA is on a site full of lawsuits.

[aiglefort]

LSU has ample space, more appropriately zoned and without need of immoral expropriation of private residences, in the area around Charity Hospital. There is no publicly logical reason to use the Lower Mid-City site. So what's the privately logical reason? Bribes and influence?