Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park
Riverfront green space built where wharves and warehouses once lined the Mississippi's edge.
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This guide to Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park in New Orleans starts with a building erased: until 1995, this plaza was home to the Rivergate, an architecturally celebrated convention hall demolished the moment Louisiana legalized casino gambling. Governor Edwin Edwards forced two rival companies into a shotgun joint venture for the land-based casino license, and the wrecking crews moved in soon after, taking a gilded Joan of Arc statue's home with it. The replacement casino opened as a temporary operation in 1995, went bankrupt within six months, and didn't open in its permanent building until four years late. Look toward the casino towers past the park's edge, all that remains of the site's earlier landmark.
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