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Touched by the Spirit
Touched by the Spirit
This week I feel like I have learned a little bit about what it truly means to bear one anothers burdens. This week we started teaching a woman named Fernanda. She is passing through a really hard time because she is currently living with the father of her two sons. Who is unfortunately an alcoholic. He can´t even work because he is so addicted to drinking. He is literally drinking his life away. As we have gotten to know her and have talken to her, I can honestly say that we have been bearing her burdens. I feel SO MUCH sadness for her, but I also feel so much HOPE for her. Unfortunately she can not work because she has a little baby of 1 month old and has to wait until he is 4 months old to stop breast feeding him. But she said that everytime she prays and thinks about the new years something fills her with happiness and hope. I don´t know exactly how to help her overcome these problems, but I am confident that Heavenly Father does and I hope to be able to continue to bear her burdens and help make them lighter.
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Will there be a VIP pit area reserved for this sold out show for those of us who are doing the VIP experience and won't be getting to the pit until after
Eric's 2 song acoustic set at the VIP Joint? This show sold out fast, so hopefully we will be able to have a roped off VIP pit area in front of the stage, like the one they had at the Des Moines show.
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The general admission pit for the Sioux Falls show is our regular set up. Our regular setup is a small pit area towards the stage that is first-come, first-serve, standing room only, with the rest of the floor behind the pit seated. In Des Moines the reason we had a roped off area in the pit was that the entire floor was general admission, which would have left our VIP guests much further back than you'd find yourself at a show with our regular setup. The pit for our regular setup is small enough to ensure that if you will have a great spot for the show no matter when you arrive. The stage has two large extensions that reach far into the pit. This is also not a traditional show where the people on stage stay in one spot. Eric and his band move around quite a bit, and there is always something to see. If you have any additional questions about this experience, please reach out to CID at "email@example.com"
Thanks for letting me know about the set up for the show
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I am shaking just looking at your photo! Hah! I would die!
I LOVE that tshirt....was that particular shirt one you got from the M&G? Great pix !!!
naw that shirt was from the 2006 tour I believe ...got one myself
@crazygracie12 I love your proifle picture:-)
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Hey that's my name LOL I would have picked keep on :)
This is so awesome. I'm dying here waiting to find out if I'm in or not.... Ahhhh.
These handwritten letters are killing me! Swoon! I think I would have picked Before She Does. What did u end up picking?
Oh if he eve uttered my name.... Now I am going to go crazy waiting to find out.
Thats Awesome, what song did you pick?
thats so amazing! would die to pick one of the songs! what did you end up picking?
I picked Two Pink Lines and Eric forgot the words, started laughing, and had to start the song over! It was great!
Who came up to you to give you the letter? Did you have a meet and greet/VIP/pit?
Yes, I had a meet and greet, vip and pit tickets. Marshall, Eric's assistant, took me aside during the meet and greet while Eric was talking to someone else
OMG!! Got picked for a meet and greet for Minneapolis!!! So surprised! My bf didn't get picked. I can't believe it! Congrats to the others who also got picked and I'm sorry for the ones who didn't get picked. I hope you get picked for another show! OMG!
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CONGRATS!! Didn't get picked but excited for the show!! :)
Congrats! How far in advance do we find out? We find out by email?
Congrats! I got the 'better luck next time' email, but can't wait to hear how it goes!!
How far in advance did you get notified that you got it?
They notified my on Saturday at 5:09 PM for the Tuesday show. I also go an email stating I had won!
In the video Eric released today to the Church Choir, he states at :31 "Surround us and be in the pits on the stage with us". I was told yesterday that those pits were for radio people, band families, etc and not available to fans or Church Choir members. Is this true? This doesn't sound like what Eric is quoted as saying today in the video. I would hope the Choir would be able to get into The Insiders Pit. Thank you.
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I was wondering the same thing!
I'm going to the STL show Sat. They mentioned on the local radio station that they "believe" that insider pit is for fan club only. I talked to one of the DJs I know and he said they honestly don't know how you get those tickets.
He said they were only given ONE pair of those to give away. I know when we bought our tickets the only this available was GA Pit for the VIP tickets. I thought maybe that was the VIP area but our email said there is no special VIP area.
So I am really confused because I would have bought those tickets if they were available. Sure wish they would give us some insight, dying to know how you get in that insider pit area for sure 😎
I was able to get pit tickets. I logged on at 10am the first day of the pre-sale and was able to get two. I did have to buy VIP to get them though.
Yes I bought VIP tickets as well for STL but there wasn't an option for this insider pit. The only bad thing about VIP is you miss the opportunity to run to get the spot you want in the pit. I wish they had a special section for VIP
I emailed them about those cause I have GA tickets and just had knee surgery, and saw that area and figured that would be a safer area for me. They said they aren't available for GA holders but also didn't say who they were available for.
The only thing we can think of is that they just aren't telling people that is the VIP spot. Our email said there would be other "surprises", so who knows. I totally would have paid big bucks for a spot in that insider pit if it was offered
I am surprised the moderator didn't answer my questions and explain this to everyone. I also wonder what other 'surprises' are in store for us. Getting super excited for The Outsiders Tour to start tomorrow and hear all about the first show
they would be listed as 'behind the stage' tickets
When I bought my ticket for Minneapolis, the seating chart said VIP GA. Hoping that holds true!!
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Me! Can't wait!
Ahhhh me too!!!!! So excited!!
So pumped! Missed the chance on VIP tickets so I'm just praying for meet and greets!
Good to see 38 people made the Meet and Greet for Las Vegas. Even a picture or 2 of Eric smiling, you've got to love that. Hoping the trend continues with more than 1 for a Meet and Greet. I've entered 3 so far...fingers crossed I'll be picked!
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I entered three too! Hoping for October 24th on my actual birthday!
Good luck, what a great birthday present a Meet and Greet would be!
38 choir members??!! THATS AWESOME and yes hopefully that many at all the shows..
Yes, It was encouraging to see so many pictures of the meet and greet. Of course, some of those are radio people, I suspect.
I was one of the lucky ones. I would say there were 50-60 people there. Also notice some of the photos are of groups. Only one picture was allowed per person so if you wanted a group photo that was your one photo.
Did you get to have anything signed? How much time did you get to talk to Eric? They normally do groups to push people along.
What time will Eric be doing meet and greets if I am lucky enough to win one? Last time he did his 2 set acoustic VIP performance before 8 pm. Will the meet and greets be after that? I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars if I am going to miss the 2 set performance if I am at a meet and greet. Please respond before tickets go on sale today at 10 AM. I have 2 shows to buy for at the same time! Thank you.
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meet & greet's are separate from the vip experience.
Yes, I know, but will I be in line at 7:30 for a meet and greet while Eric is doing his 2 set VIp performance and there by I will miss it?
Trust me, from my experience, missing a performance to actually meet Eric is worth more than what you paid for the ticket(s).
Agreed! I doubt I will get a meet and greet anyway. Last met him in 2007, a LONG time ago!
You will be able to do both! I had VIP & a meet & greet at one of his shows last year. There were 5 or 6 of us that were VIP & also had meet & greets. There is someone from his tour who will be in the VIP area - find that person and tell th
Thanks for the info; nice to know I can do both. I am hoping for a meet and greet, but doubt I will get one with so many choir members now. BTW, how many people were at the meet and greet last year, total?
BTW, love your picture with Eric, you almost got a smile! I almost got a smile in my picture with him from 2007, too! I keep it as the background on my phone!
Can i buy more than (1) VIP ticket during the presale? I plan to go VIP for all the shows I am attending.
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Up to 4 VIP can be purchased.
Will VIP show up on ticketmaster on day of pre-sale? Mohegan Sun in particular...
I have purchased VIP tickets via ticketmaster during the presale. It just shows up as one of your options. I just hope you are using ticketmaster. Ericchurch.com is having some serious issues with the presales. People are NOT happy!
I hope the dates or times are staggered so that while I am trying to get MN tickets, the Des Moines show is not on sale at the same time and by the time I get done with my MN ticket purchase, the Des Moines show is sold out! There are several Choir members going to 5+ shows. Please think about this when doing the pre-sales on sale dates/times, if possible. Thank you.
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Eric's performance is being streamed live this Saturday, April 12th at the Tortuga Festival website. Does anyone know what time he will be coming on?I am assuming around 10 PM?? Earlier?? Any live performance is great until he announces tour dates, preferably near me!
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Eric talks about the tour and other things in this interview from Valentine's Day. Interview
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Good thing I get to see him twice before he announces the tour! I would be going through withdraws waiting for this Fall or NEXT year!
could no get it from here but thanks for the link.
Has anyone noticed there are no meet and greet links for any of the U S dates listed so far? Wonder why? I am hoping a tour announcement is coming soon! The suspense is killing me for how many shows I am going to go to this year. Didn't see any shows last year of the Kenny Chesney/Eric Church tour. The one show they did in MN, Eric was not with Kenny Chesney and they had Zac Brown Band instead. Ummm...no thanks, not even close! No offense to any ZBB fans!
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I got lucky and went to his Stubbs show in Austin in October best concert I've seen him in so far. I'm hoping for some dates here soon keep us sane!! Hoping to make everybody I know go see him live to understand how great this man is!
@crazygracie12 - most of the tour dates up right now are festival dates or not "eric planned" tour dates. Once we announce the next tour there will be some because we control those concerts. hope that helps.
Thanks for the info. Any idea when we can expect US tour dates to be announced? We are all getting very anxious!
In a recent interview Eric said the US Tour hasn't been announced because nothing is set in stone yet. He is focusing on the tour overseas then the US tour will be planned once he returns. Early Fall is what was said in the interview.
I hope the powers to be on this website took notice of the fiasco that was the ticketing process for the 6 shows in 2 days #TheOutsidersLIve tour yesterday! I am sure I am not alone in saying I am in the Choir SPECIFICALLY to get great seats to as many Eric Church shows as possible via the presales when he finally does announce his tour! This website crashed and crashed yesterday and I am hoping they fix this before we are actually try for tickets! I have been a Choir member since 2006 and am not even complaining that I couldn't get a ticket to the free Chicago show, or that I still haven't received my bundle I ordered in Oct. I want to be assured I will be able to get preferred seats being a Choir member. I hope they go the ticketless route again. That seemed to help cut down on the scalping, that is if you can get through to order tickets.
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I agree with your logic, otherwise is there a benefit to being a choir member ? The time is what got me , I work a busy job and cant get to my computer @ 2pm or 3pm but midnight or 1 am I can ! Wish we really did have first dibs,
Wow! Wow! Wow! This reviewer was blown away by Eric last night and gave me goosebumps reading the review! Killer setlist, too! KC, you are in for a treat tonight!!!! So jealous!!!! http://rockcandy.omaha.com/2014/01/18/live-review-eric-church-captivates-with-his-solo-mostly-acoustic-set/
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Has anyone heard ANY rumblings about when Eric will announce his 2014 dates and who might go out with him? Does anyone think it might be an acoustic tour as the cryptic videos suggest??
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W/George Strait.. should be amazing. Flying down from Vancouver to the Arlington show. http://www.songkick.com/artists/61270-eric-church
Getting the feeling that the dates will be released soon after the album as an "Outsider Tour". As far as opening acts he is taking The Cadillac Three along to Europe with him. Could mean the same for round here, but it's just a guess
The Cadillac Three is touring with Jake Owen after they are done with Eric in Europe. That kinda sucks - I thought they'd be a good opening act for the tour.
acoustic wow never thought about that it could really awesome show. maybe good idea.... hope to see more tour dates out this is getting sad not know when i can see band this year. Willing to travel too
I'll throw out Blackjack Billy as a suggestion for an opening act...I think they would compliment Mr. Church quite well!
Eric! Come to NC! We're all waiting for you and it's your hometown. Please come. Cya Here!
Does anyone know where to get the Ticketmaster Code that was on the old site? I can only find my profile on this new website!
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Hey Crazygracie12 - ticketmaster codes change as a new tour get's announced. Once one is announced, members will be issues new codes with their memberships or will have access behind the Church Choir wall to get presale tickets.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Written by Nathan Stubbs
Dating back to 1856, Mills Addition — which runs between North University and the railroad tracks, north of downtown all the way to Cameron Street — is Lafayette's oldest subdivision. As the place right outside the town of Vermilionville where residents would go to settle disputes, it also became known as Fightingville — a name that took on new meaning as crime, drugs and poverty took hold in the area throughout the latter half of the last century.
|Acadiana Outreach's proposed Joie de Vivre development is a
$25 million, nine-building, mixed-use complex situated at the
intersections of Congress, West Second and South Pierce streets.
As Lafayette's city planning director in the 1970s and 80s, Sonnier was a proponent of plans, just then starting to germinate, calling for the city to re-invest in downtown as a central arts, culture and business district . Sonnier's daughter, Giselle Menard, often accompanied her father to the Madison Street house whenever he went to mow the grass, or clean out one of three apartments he set up there.
"I remember him telling me," Menard says, "that there are these ideas about fountains and about 'really making downtown the center again and that's why I want this property. I want to have a place for the young, up and coming artists and musicians, people who make this city thrive. I want to have a place for them.' That was his dream."
"Unfortunately," Menard laments, "[the neighborhood] started going down instead. He never saw his vision realized." Albert Sonnier died in 1997.
In part because of her late father's vision, Menard, who inherited her family's Madison Street rent house in 2000, is now one of the enthusiastic supporters behind a proposed urban housing development sponsored by the Acadiana Outreach Center, a nonprofit organization that provides critical services to Acadiana's addicted and homeless populations. The new development promises to be a magnet to young professionals looking for affordable housing near downtown and hopes to incite re-development throughout the area.
At a meeting last week of Le Centre Coterie — the Mills Addition neighborhood group formed at the beginning of the year by the city planning department — Menard joined several other members in voting to endorse the project.
Acadiana Outreach has zeroed in on about four blocks in Mills Addition, adjacent to its campus, an area many feel is ripe for redevelopment. The area is centered at the South Pierce intersection where Congress Street turns into West Second Street, directly across from downtown's IberiaBank tower. Electrical services company Magnon Electric Inc. now occupies the bulk of the proposed development's site. In addition, the site includes two adjudicated properties, about a half dozen privately owned homes, and five parcels already owned by Acadiana Outreach, two of which are currently serving as halfway houses. Acadiana Outreach is now in final negotiations to buy all the remaining properties.
|Henry and Sonya Boudreaux
Plans call for a $25 million, nine-building, mixed use development with modern loft-style apartments above ground-floor retail space fronting Congress, West Second and South Pierce streets (planners aim to attract a grocery store, day care center and coffee shop). The project, still in the pre-development phase, is based on an Acadiana Outreach initiative to combat Lafayette's shortage of affordable housing. Its sponsors hope to fund the development almost entirely through a combination of public sources: state and federal grant allocations, only some of which has been secured thus far, as well as some $20 million in federal tax credits it plans to apply for in August. If granted, the tax credits would then be sold to private investors for up-front capital (see Funding chart, Page 10). If all goes well, the development could break ground by early 2011 and open for business sometime in mid-2012.
Its proponents say it could be nothing short of transformative for the area — that it will be held up as a national model for publicly supported smart growth revitalization. Says Greg Gachassin, president and founder of The Cartesian Company, a real estate development and public finance company serving as the lead consultant on the project: "It's never been done like this in a community of 200,000 people, not [one] that will make this kind of impact and use all of these different sources leveraged together. Not to this degree."
The planned 118-unit complex — dubbed Joie de Vivre — will rent one, two and three bedroom apartments exclusively to low-income workers making no more than 60 percent of Lafayette's annual Area Median Income (a requirement of the federal aid).
Based on Lafayette's current AMI of $57,500, rent for the lofts will range from approximately $550 to $765 a month.
UL architecture professor Hector LaSala, a member of Acadiana Outreach's board of directors and one of the visionaries behind the project, says the project will effectively extend downtown into the Mills Addition neighborhood — bringing young residents and active commerce with it. City leaders have long stressed the need for more housing downtown as the last piece in completing its rebirth as a vibrant community center.
More residents will create demand for a variety of retail businesses, the argument goes, and push back against downtown's crime, litter and other nuisances.
The private sector has been slow to answer the call, LaSala says, because of the complications associated with developments in a dense urban area like downtown compared to the relative ease and low cost of building in the suburbs. "For us, we see this project as being capable of really changing our downtown and taking it to the next phase," LaSala says. "Because once you do one [housing development] and it's successful, I think the private sector will come and start developing. So we're going to set a standard."
|Joie de Vivre's lofts will sport a contemporary, open layout.
Joie de Vivre was designed by a team that included architect Glenn Angelle and engineer Andre Montagnet working alongside representatives of the UL School of Architecture: professors LaSala and Corey Saft and graduate student Tim Dumatrait. Architectural renderings depict a sleek, modernist-style building with lateral windows and inset balconies. The apartment interiors sport a contemporary, open layout, with sliding walls and stainless steel kitchen appliances. The designers also hope to have Joie de Vivre become one of the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified developments in the state, an energy efficiency designation that will mean a substantial savings in utility costs for renters.
"Young people, buppies and yuppies are gonna fill up that place," says Sylvia Cluse, referring to the abbreviations for black urban professionals and young urban professionals. Cluse, one of the co-chairs of Le Centre Coterie who owns an out-of-operation business on Simcoe Street she is currently trying to restore, says the development could go a long way in helping area businesses thrive. "I think people love the downtown area, there's no doubt about it. They're gonna make this thing overflow. I think it's going to be beautiful."
Not everyone in the neighborhood is gushing over the plans. In fact, several residents have serious doubts about the development's success, expressing their sincere distaste for its hackneyed name — Joie de Vivre — and a soulless international style aesthetic they say would fit better in Stalinist-era Russia.
"We don't want it," exclaims Ty Hanes, who admits he has not seen the plans for the project. Hanes says he has little faith in a publicly funded project sponsored by Acadiana Outreach, especially one that will consist solely of rental units. "If there's no ownership, there's no pride," he insists.
Hanes has been at the forefront of an organic revitalization of Mills Subdivision. Last year, he and his partner, Kenneth Delavergne, bought two mid-century brick warehouses on Simcoe Street, and converted them into two new businesses: Hanes' used and antique furniture store called retromodern and The Alamo, a work studio co-op for artists. This was their vote of confidence in the neighborhood, after five years of living in a restored Craftsman-style house on South Pierce and Simcoe. Just last week, Hanes and Delavergne signed papers to purchase the old St. Joseph Diner building at the corner of Simcoe and Madison streets. They're planning their own development with the building — tentatively named Madison Square — that will consist of a two-story townhouse alongside three loft apartments and a restaurant.
Most of his apprehensions are rooted in a lack of faith in Acadiana Outreach, which he and other residents feel has only served to hold back progress in the neighborhood. Several point to arrest reports from the five "sober living" halfway houses that Acadiana Outreach now operates in the neighborhood, and the public relations nightmare that occurred last year when it was noted that alleged Baton Rouge serial killer Jeffery Lee Guillory had, on prior arrest, listed 124 Buchanan St., the location of Acadiana Outreach Center's main campus, as his address.
"They are basically telling everyone here," Hanes says, "that has worked to turn this neighborhood around over the last four years not to bother. All [this development] is going to do is turn [our progress] back around."
Sonya LaComb-Boudreaux has a similar point of view. She and her husband Henry, an architect, live in the historic Brandt House, an Acadian-style home turned New Orleans town house by William Brandt, one of Lafayette's first clerks of court, that lies one block over from the proposed site of Joie de Vivre. The Boudreaux home dates back to the 1820s, and the couple, who have spent the last 12 years renovating it, have identified it as the third oldest structure in Lafayette. Sonya and Henry fear how the impending development may impact the historic integrity of the neighborhood.
"I kind of feel like the Wetlands right now," says Sonya, a museum consultant with expertise in antique interiors. "We're in this kind of fragile ecosystem, and here comes this, not an oil spill, but here comes this development that threatens a lot we've been working toward."
"We're not afraid of this development," Henry contends. "We're not afraid of progress in our neighborhood. We're a little afraid of what this could turn into. … And we're a little afraid of the architecture."
Ken and Andrea Veron, who own a restored Colonial Foursquare house on South Pierce that dates back to 1910, say they are cautiously optimistic about the development. "If they do exactly what they say they're going to do, it can only be good for the neighborhood," says Ken, who works as a real estate agent. However, as co-chair of Le Centre Coterie, he has been pushing for a little more assurance: he wants Acadiana Outreach and its partners to sign a Community Benefits Agreement that will bind them to certain obligations regarding security and maintenance of the development. "I'm just very leery about a bait and switch," he says, noting that apartment complexes have a tendency to age quickly. "There's concern that the business plan will change and that the neighborhood will be adversely impacted."
Consultant Gachassin, who is packaging the financing for Joie de Vivre, says that both he and Acadiana Outreach are open to the idea of a Community Benefits Agreement, but that any contract would have to be reviewed and approved by all affected parties, including that of private investors.
In response to security concerns, Gachassin has stressed Joie de Vivre will be run by an experienced outside property management firm that will screen all tenants with a credit and criminal background check, hire professional on-site security, and enforce a strict rental agreement policy with zero tolerance for drugs and other criminal activity.
Joie de Vivre has its roots in another proposed development from the Acadiana Outreach Center. In 2007, the center, under the direction of then-CEO Valerie Keller, announced plans for The Lofts at Olivier. The center envisioned converting a brick warehouse it was leasing at 114 Olivier St. into a 30-unit development that would blend subsidized apartments, including space for the center's clients, with market-rate lofts and shared artist work spaces.
In an e-mail to The Independent Weekly, Keller writes that the plan reflected the center's expanding mission to address more than just the immediate needs of people living on the street. "We realized we needed to move further upstream," she writes, "to focus on the root causes of why people weren't self-sufficient — one of those is simply a lack of housing that's affordable and near transportation and employment. And wanted to transition from charity more to a 'social enterprise' — providing market-based solutions to social problems."
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu pledged her support for the project after visiting Acadiana Outreach's campus and the surrounding neighborhood, citing the project's aim to renew an area that had already been designated as a "qualified census tract" and "HUBzone qualified" neighborhood in need of revitalization, by the federal government.
To date, Landrieu has helped secure $992,500 in federal funds through the Transportation Housing & Urban Development's Economic Development Initiative fund. In addition, the state Legislature (supporters include Sen. Mike Michot and Rep. Page Cortez) has thus far committed $265,000 in seed money to the project.
Gachassin says that to date, Acadiana Outreach has put approximately $125,000 of the funds toward acquisitions, while the rest of the money is still in the bank. Once an environmental clearance passes — Acadiana Outreach is still waiting on the Louisiana State Historic Preservation Office to complete its review — it will be cleared to begin using the rest of the funds to complete acquisitions. All professional fees tied to pre-development on the project are being covered by a $180,000 loan taken out by Acadiana Outreach.
This year, the center is requesting another $2 million from both the state and federal government for Joie de Vivre.
That request reflects the broadening scope of the project. Keller says that last year, after consulting with national development firm McCormack Baron Salazar, the center realized its plans were not financially sustainable and therefore shifted focus.
Enter Gachassin and The Cartesian Company. With his years of experience in both public financing and affordable housing developments (Gachassin is the prior chairman of both the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency and the Lafayette Public Trust Financing Authority), Gachassin formed The Cartesian Company at the start of this year to help foster developments looking to leverage a variety of public and private finance options. To make the center's project viable, Gachassin recommended expanding the scope, moving retail space to front visible thoroughfares like Congress Street, and subsidizing the development up front through the sale of tax credits to private investors.
Here's how the new business model will work:
This August, Acadiana Outreach will apply for a total of $20 million in federal tax credits, to be taken in $2 million increments over 10 years, from the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency. If successful, the center can then sell the credits for approximately $15 million in up front capital to finance Joie de Vivre. Upon the sale of the credits, the buyer, known as an investor or limited partner — generally a major bank or other Fortune 500 company like Capital One or Dow Chemical — will then own 99.9 percent of the housing development. The limited partner maintains majority ownership through a mandated 15-year period. (It takes 10 years for the company to recoup its investment in the tax credits). As the project sponsor, or general partner, Acadiana Outreach will keep a .1 percent ownership interest. After that initial 15-year period is up, the limited partner typically donates or sells the property back to the general partner. Because the project will be seeking an extended use option with its tax credits, the development will still have to keep rent at fixed rates and abide by other federal compliance regulations for an additional 15 years.
Acadiana Outreach can still make money off the deal. Federal and state mandates do, however, limit profits for almost all parties involved. General contractors are limited to a 6 percent profit. On the overall development, a maximum 15 percent "development fee" can be shared between the sponsor, Acadiana Outreach, and any partners or consultants upon completion of the project (in this case, a total of $3 million).
In addition, based on an agreement hammered out with a limited partner upon sale of the tax credits, Acadiana Outreach also will likely receive a portion of monthly revenue profits. This profit is capped at 25 percent of total obligations for debt service and all overhead costs, to be split between the two partners.
"From a banking standard, it's an extremely thin margin at the end of the day," Gachassin says. "But in these situations, you're able to be thin because there's such a great demand, and you don't have as much risk as you would in a more market rate environment." As a 501c3 nonprofit, any money Acadiana Outreach collects through the development goes toward supporting the organization and its other initiatives.
Already, Joie de Vivre has garnered letters of support from a who's who list of influential Lafayette organizations, including the Community Foundation of Acadiana, the Lafayette Land Revitalization Authority, the Stuller Family Foundation and the Lafayette Economic Development Authority.
Cathy Webre, executive director of Downtown Development Authority, says the issue has not been presented before her board of directors yet, but that she has sat down with both project developers and concerned residents.
"The devil's always in the details," she says. "There are some concerns from residents about security and how this will fit in a very historic neighborhood, but it's hard not to like the concept and see that this has at least the potential to be something really great for both the neighborhood and for downtown."
Current Acadiana Outreach CEO Rick Newton, who took over from Keller at the beginning of the year (Keller still works for AOC as a contract consultant) says that the center is encouraging concerned residents to work with the organization. Due to concerns expressed about a perceived lack of communication from the center, Newton has touted having an open door policy.
"January is when we really went into pre-development," he says. "That's pre-development, and we're having our formal presentation to the Coterie, the first public presentation, here at the beginning of May. That's a relatively short period of time.
"I understand folks' concerns, I really do," he continues. "I'm aware of the history. All I can tell you is that I'm committed to being an active part of this community. We're looking for ways to involve the community. I'm committed to going and being an active part of the Coterie, being a regular participant and looking for ways to increase the dialogue. I would just hope folks would give us a chance."
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High Court rejects claim for £500,000 as judges set new benchmark for miscarriages of justice
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Cahal Milmo is the chief reporter of The Independent and has been with the paper since 2000. He was born in London and previously worked at the Press Association news agency. He has reported on assignment at home and abroad, including Rwanda, Sudan and Burkina Faso, the phone hacking scandal and the London Olympics. In his spare time he is a keen runner and cyclist, and keeps an allotment.
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Barry George, who spent eight years in prison after being wrongly convicted of Jill Dando's murder, had his claim for compensation thrown out yesterday after judges ruled that his conviction, later overturned in a retrial, did not amount to a "miscarriage of justice".
Lawyers for the 52-year-old, who would gain up to £500,000 if his claim was successful, argued the Justice Secretary illegally withheld the payment after his conviction was quashed in 2007 by effectively suggesting that Mr George was "not innocent enough" to be compensated.
But a panel of High Court judges rejected the claim of Mr George and three other men whose convictions had been quashed. They were part of a test case to decide when a victim of a wrongful conviction can be declared innocent beyond all doubt, and therefore potentially entitled to a cash award.
One of the five claimants, Ian Lawless, who spent eight years in jail for a murder he did not commit, won his case and was granted permission to have his compensation claim reconsidered.
Nicholas Baird, the solicitor for Mr George, said he and his family were "terribly disappointed" at the finding and would continue their fight for redress from the Government.
Mr George, who has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, is seeking damages for lost earnings and wrongful imprisonment following his conviction of the murder in 1999 of Ms Dando, who was shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham, west London. The Court of Appeal overturned the conviction after doubt was cast on crucial evidence of a "firearms discharge" particle found in a pocket of a coat worn by Mr George. When he was subsequently acquitted in a retrial, prosecutors said he had "the right to be regarded as innocent".
The test case followed a landmark decision by the Supreme Court in 2011 which found that the "mere quashing" of a conviction could not be an automatic "trigger for compensation".
The ruling by nine judges set a new test for a miscarriage of justice which required that damages should only be paid if a person could prove there were no circumstances that could have led to their conviction by a jury.
Yesterday's ruling found that Mr George and three others whose convictions had been overturned failed to meet that test.
In a judgment which raises the question of a distinction in the judicial system between acquittal and a declaration of innocence, two High Court judges said there were no new facts in Mr George's case which would have meant he could never have been convicted. Lord Justice Beatson and Mr Justice Irwin said: "There was indeed a case upon which a reasonable jury, properly directed, could have convicted the claimant of murder."
The finding was greeted with dismay by Mr George's legal team, who had argued the decision of the Government not to grant him compensation, which would have been capped at £500,000, was "flawed" and "contrary to natural justice".
Mr Baird said his client was not yet giving up this fight.
He said: "We are very disappointed with the judgment and we shall be applying for permission to leapfrog the Court of Appeal to have the matter heard before the Supreme Court."
Legal experts said the ruling was about "shutting down" the flow of compensation and was unfair on Mr George who is considered innocent of Ms Dando's death in the public mind.
Michael Turner QC, chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, said : "What this is about is a change of the law making it harder for people who have suffered miscarriages of justice to get money out of the Government.
"It is about giving people in these cases the least amount of money and shutting down this stream of compensation. As far as Mr George is concerned this is not fair, because no one now thinks that he is guilty of this crime."
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Mr Lawless was released in 2009 and his conviction was overturned after the Court of Appeal heard that his "confessions", made to pub regulars and a taxi driver, arose from a mental condition that resulted in a "pathological need for attention".
Despite a consensus among experts that his confession was unreliable and no jury could convict him on the basis of these admissions, the Justice Secretary refused an application by Mr Lawless to be compensated for his eight years of imprisonment. The High Court ruled yesterday that the Government had wrongly rejected the claim. The Ministry of Justice must now reconsider how much to award him.
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How astrologers are going to calculate after pluto planet is being deleted from 9 palnets group. ???Answered by klm, 14 Sep '08 11:02 pm
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As we had seen and read in the theory that was supported by the evidence, it is needed to believe to. Anyway there is nothing wrong if you believe or not, Its up to you. I believe the capacity and the ability of the astrologer, without them there is no discovering of everything in the earth and its surface. And I can say that they are worthful. If we believe and having faith in the unseen matters(esp. god) why shoudn't believe the things whom we had already seen and supported by the evidence.Answered by jarry diong, 14 Sep '08 06:45 pm


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No matter what I need, I can always find it here for a great price...especially with the 10% discount! Customer service at MJM Magic is excellent. I...
Best magic site on the net
Excellent service, best prices on the net. Very helpful with questions on purchased products. Shipping very fast also. Love the 10% Lifetime discount.