[10] With bad management, the apartments fell into terrible conditions with interior walls damaged from water leaks of rusted pipes and broken elevators.

In December 2000 Woody Koppel, Neal Morris and Mark Schreiner bought the complex for $5 million in hopes of transforming it but many apartments still failed HUD inspections.

[19] North of Crescent City Gates were the Christopher Homes Development, another run-down housing complex torn down in 2013.

[20] In 2024, The City of New Orleans announced the demolition of the complex which was on mayor LaToya Cantrell's blighted properties list known as the "Dirty Dozen".

According to the city, "the ownership was found guilty of 15 violations, including deteriorating condition of sidewalks, driveways, exterior walls, porches, doors, windows and roof, as well as trash and debris, rodents and graffiti.

Carolyn Kitzman communicated with existing tenants and employed and supervised the groundskeeping crews which cleaned the interior of the elevator cars.

[22][23] On May 8, 2005, authorities discovered the decomposed bodies of two men, stuffed in the trunk of a car parked in the 2900 block of Vespasian Street.

ExhibitBe closed in January 2015 with a concert including musicians David Banner, Erykah Badu, Dead Prez, Dee-1 and a performance by the Edna Karr High School Marching Band.