Federal City From The Mississippi Stock Photography

Federal City from the Mississippi. Federal City is an infill project that retrofits an 1849 US Navy Support Area along the Mississippi River into a prototype for future federal office complexes and small to medium Department of Defence installations. In 2005, an order to decommission the base and move its functions to the nearby Belle Chasse Naval Base was given, leaving the urban site under utilised. The Algiers Development District and newly formed New Orleans Federal Alliance, recognising the negative effect that decommissioning would have upon the adjacent Algiers neighbourhoods, sought to re-purpose the property both to retain a federal presence and to maintain economic activity in the neighbourhood.