Mirage District · Lot Z · Old Gentilly Road
12-Month Founding LeaseYour name on the window.
Michoud at your feet.
“I wanted my food out the window — without a $400K kitchen I’d still be paying off in year five.” That chef is who we built this for.
This is not a French Quarter lease. This is the hospitality anchor New Orleans East has never had — a 4.74-acre courtyard campus with a licensed commissary, 300+ parking stalls, and a lunch market that cannot be replicated downtown. We are signing 7 founding food vendors. First concept in each category wins.
What you save vs. opening alone
Skip: $250K–$500K kitchen · $75K–$150K dining room · 25–35% server payroll · $1.5K–$4K/mo utilities · $8K–$15K/mo “good” rent.
At Mirage @ $30K/mo sales: ~$4,500/mo all-in ($1,500 + 10%) — commissary, legal ops, Michoud traffic included.
Founding vendor economics — built for operators, not landlords
12-month lease · Year 1 rate locked. You run your menu and your window. Mirage runs the campus, the commissary backbone, the traffic machine, the legal hospitality infrastructure, and the Mirage Hospitality Team — runners, ambassadors, and floor service across the yard, hall, VIP, and parking lot. You hire cooks, not servers. No dining room, no server army on your payroll, no million-dollar kitchen build.
What you don’t pay for here
- No standalone kitchen build — prep in Mirage’s Type I commissary, serve at your courtyard window
- No dining-room servers on your payroll — Mirage hires runners & floor hospitality; you keep kitchen + window
- No pad utility bills — power to your unit included in the program
- No “invisible” pass-through fees — one clear monthly rent: $1,500 (window + commissary + storage) + 10% of sales — no hourly kitchen bills
- No tourist roulette — repeat aerospace & industrial lunch, not seasonal foot traffic
What Mirage delivers
- Mirage Hospitality Team — owner-hired runners & service staff; consistent guest experience campus-wide
- Legal, permitted hospitality operations — district-scale compliance & coordination
- Hospitality OS — Mirage Guest on their phone; Mirage runners deliver; you stay on the line
- Mirage Express — app ordering, express lane, Michoud badge lunch program
- Central bar + sweet anchor — district drives nightlife & birthdays; you capture the plate
- Reception Hall + courtyard events — corporate, weddings, rain-plan overflow
- Founding Vendor marketing — launch PR, featured profiles, category exclusivity
The dream is real — and it’s already on the boards
NASA Michoud. Boeing. Lockheed. Entergy. Thousands of skilled workers every day — with almost nowhere worth walking to for lunch. Mirage sits on Old Gentilly Road (Lot Z) from Michoud Assembly: badge holders, contractors, shift workers, celebration dinners, corporate catering. You are not begging Bourbon Street for crumbs. You are owning the plate in America’s most under-served lunch corridor. Courtyard-facing windows. Catenary lights. Portal arrival. 50×50 commissary + enclosed reception hall. REV 9.2 — courtyard-first, reception-ready, built for serious operators. Opening: [MONTH YEAR] · [X] of 7 slots remaining.
What’s in the commissary (you don’t buy)
Your monthly rent includes the Type I kitchen: hood line, walk-ins, prep waves, LDH commissary letter path. You bring window POS, signage, and service smallwares — no fryer, no hood, no hourly kitchen bills.
Monthly pricing lock · Full kitchen equipment list · Partner hub
Program summary for recruitment — final terms in executed lease (see docs/VENDOR-LEASE-OUTLINE-DRAFT.md). Vendor responsible for food cost, window staffing, insurance (minimums in lease outline), and equipment inside unit. Commissary use per district agreement. Mirage District LLC · Lot Z, Old Gentilly Road, New Orleans, LA 70129.