About Lupo Enterprises

With decades of experience, Lupo Enterprises manages a wide variety of developed properties, and raw land inventories across Louisiana and the Gulf South. If you're looking to start a project from the ground up, our team can lead you down a profitable path. 

Our History

At the age of 14, Robert E. Smith began his career as a laborer unloading railroad boxcars. After a few years as a junior executive with the Southern Railway System, he became a salesman for the New Orleans Land Company and ultimately formed his own real estate development organization with his wife, Hettie. "Bob" Smith developed single-family homes, designed by Hettie, in the Lakeview neighborhood, ultimately branching out into commercial development.

During the time between the world wars, George J. Lupo, son of a humble grocer, acquired construction and accounting knowledge that led him to a successful career in residential development in the uptown neighborhoods of New Orleans and as president \ and board chairman of the Jackson Homestead Association.

Bob and Hettie Smith's daughter, Alvena, and George Lupo's son, Tommy, a decorated Naval aviator, married and grew a real estate organization admired for its imagination, pioneering attitude and dedication to civic endeavors in and around New Orleans. Five decades after Smith left his position as salesman for the New Orleans Land Company, his daughter and son-in-law purchased the company's assets to add to their growing real estate portfolio. Smith's philanthropic activities, including donation to the city of the Lakeview library that bears his name, have informed the continued charitable and civic activities of his descendants, benefiting such institutions as the National World War 11 Museum, Tulane University, City Park, and various Catholic charities, among others. In both their commercial and eleemosynary activities, the Smiths' grandchildren and great-grandchildren operate and expand their legacy.