A New Orleans concrete company has given up on its controversial proposal to open a temporary concrete batching plant on part of the vacant 26-acre site in the Lower Garden District where the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center once planned to build a giant expansion. The plant would have occupied a 2.8-acre site in the block bounded by Tchoupitoulas, Race, South Peters and Orange streets.

veterans-affairs-hospital-site.jpgView full sizeConstruction of the new Veterans Affairs Medical Center is expected to demand a lot of concrete.

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