Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn insists he s not looking to pick a fight, but he is looking at the grass. Lawn patches near the once-bustling Esplanade Mall were standing higher than he liked a few days ago. So he made some calls.City leaders didn t want to wait any longer for the property s operator, Kohan Retail Investment Group, to manicure the property. They hired a private landscaping firm, H&O Grounds, to manicure the property Saturday. Unkempt property is going to draw rodents and things that are worse, and we don t need that, Zahn said. If the mall can t take care of themselves, we have to step in and take care of it for them. The City of Kenner s intervention marks the latest chapter in the Esplanade Mall s bumpy history. When the site first opened in 1985, stores and restaurants filled its two-story plan ― and customers followed. But many factors led the venue to bottom out: the rise of Metairie s Lakeside Shopping Center; fading interest in brick-and-mortar shopping; closur
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