Idle Wild Pines Rd, Slidell, LA 70460

For sale is an 87.52-acre property presenting a future residential development opportunity. The City of Slidell was founded around 1882 during the construction of a major new railroad from New Orleans to Meridian, Mississippi, connecting with Cincinnati, Ohio, and eventually New York, NY. The New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad established a building camp at the first high ground north of Lake Pontchartrain, which eventually grew into the city. Slidell was chartered as a town in 1888 by the Louisiana legislature. In the 1960s, Slidell began to assume its modern profile as the middle of three local sites in NASA’s lunar landing program: the Michoud assembly facility in New Orleans, the computer facility in Slidell, and the Mississippi test facility in Hancock County, Mississippi. St. Tammany Parish's pre-history was characterized by several phases of indigenous Native American development. The construction of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway accelerated the migration to St. Tammany, while the construction of I-12 placed the region at the epicenter of progress. The parish began to develop as a bedroom community, with suburban sprawl first taking root in and around Slidell. The Causeway (completed in 1956) linked suburban Metairie with western St. Tammany, and growth gathered momentum in towns like Mandeville, Covington, and Madisonville. St. Tammany today enjoys status as the most prosperous parish in Louisiana, sporting a thriving economy and one of the highest-rated school systems in the state.