LSU VA hospital site

As far as the old Charity, it cannot be torn down, it's been placed on the Nat. Historic registry. To gut it, would be very costly, being that it's full of asbestos, to where the DEQ would be involved, and standards for asbestos removal will be needed, which is not very cheap....The building would have to be completely gutted and rebuilt to comply with todays standards for hospital grade enforcements.


I believe I heard on wwl that the cost of renovation is little above 300mil, while the new charity would cost nearly a billion.

One interesting of note is that LSU wants FEMA to give 493mil, but the agency has unofficially only offered 150mil. Even though the site has been chosen, I can't see this being done by 2013, based off the difference in the money.