NOLA.com: Music museum project in River District 'shovel ready' by next summer after state funds granted

From NOLA.com — A new music museum in the River District, which backers have pitched as New Orleans' answer to Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will start construction next summer after the project was allocated millions of dollars of state funds in the latest legislative session that ended last month, the developer said Wednesday.

Chris Beary, the social entrepreneur leading the project, said the $28.5 million in so-called Priority 5 funding approved last month by the Legislature is the key to keeping the project on track so it can raise the additional $80 million in bonds and $56.5 million in private funding to get fully funded.