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New Orleans, LA (2017)

Odyssey House Louisiana

Abandoned automotive facility transformed into health center, empowering people to overcome addiction.

Investment

  • NMTC Amount: $14,215,000
  • Total Project Cost: $17,004,795

IMPACT

  • 58 FTE jobs
  • 175 construction jobs
  • 10,870 patients served
  • Project includes a Federally Qualified Health Center.
  • 42,000 sq. ft. of real estate

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Project Description

The Odyssey House Louisiana (OHL) project involves the rehabilitation and complete renovation of the historic Bohn Motor Co. building, a 42,000 sq. ft. dilapidated structure that has been dormant and exposed for over a decade. OHL is a substance abuse treatment facility and federally qualified health center. Over the past four decades, OHL has provided comprehensive services to Louisiana’s most vulnerable populations, including people with HIV/AIDS, homeless clients, and clients who possess physical, psychological, or emotional disorders. In the 11 years since Hurricane Katrina, OHL has grown from a small, 61-bed treatment program into the state’s largest substance abuse treatment program.

The project financing includes $14.5 million in NMTC allocation from Enterprise and Goldman Sachs. Additional debt sources included The Reinvestment Fund, Twain Community Partners II, LLC, and a $577K loan from the Rhodes family, the owners of the property and co-developers with Gulf Coast Housing Partnership. Citibank, N.A., as an NMTC investor, provided $4.75 million of NMTC equity. But for NMTCs, OHL would not have the financial capital to allow for this redevelopment project to begin. The project can only sustain limited debt based on OHL’s revenues associated with providing free and discounted care.

OHL operates outpatient services, serving 60 patients per year, and provides inpatient services as a 48 beds detox facility, serving 3,500 patients per year. An additional 98 beds support OHL’s Short-Term Adult Residential Treatment Program, serving 1,000 patients per year. OHL’s FQHC provides primary and other medical services to 10,870 patients per year. 90 percent of patients are low-income, and over 53 percent are minority populations. OHL also operates a community kitchen and culinary skills workforce training program for 100 short-term residential substance abuse program clients a year. Clients then move to a long-term program allowing them to be placed in an employment opportunity with a food industry partner.

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Address: 2700 S. Broad, New Orleans, LA 70125

Census Tract: 22071009400

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