Odyssey House Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana (Orleans Parish)
Transforming a blighted historic building into the state’s largest substance abuse treatment facility, providing vital mental and behavioral health services.
The Project
This unique project restored the historic Bohn Motor Co. building that sat dilapidated and vacant and transformed it into a vibrant community health facility to help highest-risk populations fighting addiction, HIV/AIDS, and homelessness. Odyssey House Louisiana (Odyssey) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and the state’s largest substance abuse treatment program provider, delivering detox, treatment, behavioral and medical healthcare, life skills, counseling, and case management.
This 42,606 SF renovation project was a collaboration between developer Gulf Coast Housing Partners, a New Orleans based nonprofit real estate development company, and property owner the Rhodes Family, operators of one of the oldest African American owned funeral homes in New Orleans. Odyssey is leasing about 90% of the space for clinical and active treatment with the remainder to be used as commercial retail space for local area businesses.
Community Impact
- 48 beds for Odyssey’s medically supported detox facility, serving 3,500 patients per year.
- 98 beds for Odyssey’s short term adult residential treatment program, serving 1,000 patients per year.
- FQHC, providing primary and other medical services to 10,870 patients per year.
- Community kitchen/workforce development providing up to 450 meals per day and job-training for 40 participants per year.
- 82 jobs with 45 newly created.
- 175 construction jobs created.
Financing
- Total Project Costs: $17.0 million
- Total New Markets Allocation Secured: $14.5 million
- Total Historic Tax Credits: $2.7 million
Project Partners
- ESIC New Markets Partners (Enterprise)
- GS New Markets Fund
- GSGroup NMTC Investor (Goldman Sachs)
- Reinvestment Fund
- Twain Community Partners II
- New Orleans Development Authority
- State of Louisiana, Office of Community Development
- GCHP Housing Finance
- Gulf Coast Housing Partnership
- 2700 Bohn Motor L.L.C.
- Odyssey House Louisiana
