Supposedly in the planning stages from summer 2005 on, the project was finally declared dead in July 2011 after the location land was foreclosed on and sold at auction.

If constructed, the Trump Tower would have become the tallest building in the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana, at seventy stories.

Trump reaffirmed his support for the project shortly following the storm without setting a specific time line for construction.

[2] The Times-Picayune reported on February 17, 2009 that the project is on hold pending the recovery of the national economy.

[3] On 27 July 2011 the Times-Picayune reported the project to be officially dead, with the land sold at auction to a company intending to use it as a parking lot.