[StBernard] Rebuilding New Orleans: A Synopsis - October 2007 Update

Westley Annis Westley at da-parish.com
Wed Oct 3 22:29:33 EDT 2007


Updated October 3, 2007

Two years and one month after the devastating effects of Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita, considerable progress has been made toward reviving the local
economy. There is still a great deal more to be done, with many serious
challenges and attractive opportunities. The following linked reports and
articles provide a summary of recent results and the outlook in a number of
key sectors of the economy.

For additional information, the WTC's 1st Stop's Category Index
<http://www.wtcno.org/1ststop/categories/index.htm> provides comprehensive
news items, websites and databases (updated daily) for 31 economic,
business, and other related categories.

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President Bush Visits New Orleans on 2nd Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

White House releases Katrina Anniversary Fact Sheet
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/print/20070829-1.html>
(8/29/07) White House

In Focus: Gulf Coast Rebuilding <http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/katrina/>
(8/29/07) White House

Transcript: President meets with home owners in New Orleans
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070829-7.html> (8/29/07)
White House

Transcript: President discusses rebuilding in New Orleans
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/print/20070829-5.html>
(8/29/07) White House

Transcript: President meets with community leaders in New Orleans
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/print/20070828-6.html>
(8/28/07) White House

Governor Blanco's Remarks on 2nd Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Governor Blanco delivers remarks
<http://www.gov.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&articleID=3168&
printer=1> (8/29/07)

Blanco gives Bush 4 part recovery plan
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12548> (8/29/07) New
Orleans CityBusiness

RECOVERY PLANNING

Rebuilding to start small, Blakely says
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1190095594259130.xml&c
oll=1> (9/18/07) New Orleans Times-Picayune

Report: bureaucracy slowing post-K recovery
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12850> (9/18/07) New
Orleans CityBusiness

$200 million in road repairs include bike lanes
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12756> (9/12/07)
CityBusiness

City Hall to take over demolitions
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1189750179205720.xml&c
oll=1> (9/14/07) Times-Picayune

Unified New Orleans Plan <http://unifiedneworleansplan.com/home3/>
17 Targeted Recovery Zones <http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?tabid=95>

Louisiana Speaks Regional Plan
<http://www.louisianaspeaks.org/static.html?id=161>

Blueprint Louisiana Agenda <http://www.blueprintlouisiana.org/agenda.cfm>

HOUSING & REAL ESTATE

Program enables purchase of home
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-24/1191219333250290.xml&
coll=1> (10/1/07) Times-Picayune

Deadline is set for Road Home
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1191218940250290.xml&c
oll=1> (10/1/07) Times-Picayune

Actor Brad Pitt helping rebuild the Lower 9th Ward
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1191132821310320.xml&c
oll=1> (9/30/07) Times-Picayune

Policy sought in crisis on coast
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/money-3/119070105560000.xml&c
oll=1> (9/25/07) Times-Picayune

Insurance market in New Orleans still unstable two-years after Katrina
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12901> (9/20/07)
CityBusiness

HANO to reopen parts of Lafitte
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1190271990169640.xml&c
oll=1> (9/20/07) Times-Picayune

Road Home makes major strides
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1190183764232530.xml&c
oll=1> (9/19/07) Times-Picayune

Report B.R. N.O. commercial real estate cheaper than national levels
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12888> (9/19/07)
CityBusiness

IRS has bad news on Road Home
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/119000919949860.xml&co
ll=1> (9/17/07) Times-Picayune

Mortgage woes mount after Hurricane Katrina
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1189923755135210.xml&c
oll=1> (9/16/07) Times-Picayune

$1 billion in ideas for recovery listed
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/118966746691610.xml&co
ll=1> (9/13/07) Times-Picayune

HURRICANE PROTECTION, FLOOD CONTROL, & COASTAL RESTORATION



Pump station plans may erase landmarks
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1190874470120200.xml&c
oll=1> (9/26/07) Times-Picayune

Water resources bill wins congress' approval
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/119070144260000.xml&co
ll=1> (9/25/07) Times-Picayune

Fizzled storm allows trial run
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-24/1190528821310280.xml&
coll=1> (9/23/07) Times-Picayune

Pumping Stations complete at 17th Street and London Ave. canals
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12785> (9/13/07)
CityBusiness

Corps continues work on levees
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/118932131362670.xml&co
ll=1> (9/9/07) Times-Picayune

100- year risk maps
<http://blog.nola.com/graphics/2007/08/100year_risk_maps_released_by.html>
(8/21/07) Army Corps of Engineers

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Boeing taps Ares work in New Orleans
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=13122> (10/3/07)
CityBusiness

Panel settles on scoring system for GO Zone projects
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12910> (9/20/07)
CityBusiness

A Report on the Impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Louisiana
Businesses
<http://www.bus.lsu.edu/centers/ded/PPRL%20report_2006Q2_FINAL.pdf> (8/07)
LSU Division for Economic Development

The Louisiana Gulf Opportunity Zone Business Guide
<http://www.gozoneguide.com>



State Business Incentives
<http://lded.state.la.us/louisiana-businesses/business-resources/state-busin
ess-incentives.aspx> Louisiana Economic Development



INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND TRANSPORTATION

Australia opens new trade office in New Orleans
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/money-1/1191334807150050.xml&
coll=1> (10/2/07) Times-Picayune

New Orleans to get new trade office consulate planned
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-34/1191176354209190.xml&
storylist=topstories> (9/30/07) Times-Picayune

Blanco demands FEMA-Port meeting seat
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12909> (9/20/07)
CityBusiness

LaGrange Cites Successes In Annual Address
<http://www.wtcno.org/1ststop/docs/11.pdf> (9/19/07) Port of New Orleans

Port of N.O. sees business improving, pleads for funding
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12889> (9/19/07)
CityBusiness

Shipyards report record defense, business orders
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12734> (9/12/07)
CityBusiness

Rebuilding, repairing and reinventing the Port of New Orleans
<http://www.wtcno.org/email/1ststop/gulfshipper.htm> (7/23/07) Gulf
Shippers

WTC New Orleans to Host WTCA General Assembly October 21-24
<http://www.wtca2007.com/>
<http://www.wtcno.org/1ststop/arrow.gif> Click here
<http://www.wtca2007.com/register.asp> to register



Upcoming and Past WTC Programs <http://www.wtcno.org/programs/index.html>



TOURISM & CONVENTIONS



New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau Releases 2007 State of the City
Report
<http://www.neworleanscvb.com/articles/index.cfm/action/view/articleID/1313/
typeID/1> (8/09/07)

ENERGY, AGRICULTURE, FOOD, FORESTRY, FISHING

Interest high in Gulf lease sales
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/money-1/1191391854129840.xml&
coll=1> (10/3/07) Times-Picayune

Fishing recovery money coming
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/money-1/119070065460000.xml&c
oll=1> (9/25/07) Times-Picayune

"How U.S. Can Ensure Energy Supply for the Future"
<http://wtcno.org/programs/2007/shell9-18.htm> (9/18/07) John Hofmeister
President, Shell Oil Company- address at World Trade Center

$19M program to speed recovery Louisiana fishing industry
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12853> (9/18/07)
CityBusiness

Entergy rates in Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12728> (9/11/07)
CityBusiness

EDUCATION & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Orleans school designs unveiled
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1191391982129840.xml&c
oll=1> (10/3/07) Times-Picayune

Benjamin Franklin High celebrates 50th Anniversary
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12896> (9/20/07)
CityBusiness

RSD to built five new schools by fall 2009
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12935> (9/21/07)
CityBusiness

Enrollment drops 1.13 percent at Louisiana's state universities
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12766> (9/12/07)
CityBusiness

Upswing in rolls buoys colleges
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-3/1189059020144750.xml&c
oll=1> (9/06/07) Times-Picayune

Vallas pledges higher test scores
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-2/1182838082320170.xml&c
oll=1> (6/26/07)Times-Picayune
<http://www.wtcno.org/1ststop/arrow.gif> Flow chart of New Orleans public
schools <http://blog.nola.com/graphics/B08SchoolGuide2.pdf>



HEALTH CARE



Blue Cross: N.O. patients struggle for care
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=13069> (10/1/07)
CityBusiness

LSU opening mental hospital at DePaul
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-24/119070127660000.xml&c
oll=1> (9/25/07) Times-Picayune

Group donates $420,000 for N.O. sickle cell hospital
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12926> (9/21/07)
CityBusiness

Officials push for healthy foods
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12873> (9/19/07)
CityBusiness

Baby deliveries can now begin at Kenner Ochsner
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12855> (9/18/07)
CityBusiness

SOCIAL & ECONOMIC INDICATORS & TRENDS

St. Charles Avenue street cars tested
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-34/119133551793470.xml&s
torylist=topstories> (10/2/07) Times-Picayune

New Orleans population indicators for July 2007
<http://www.gnocdc.org/media/GNOCDCAug24-07.pdf> (8/24/07) Greater New
Orleans Community Data Center

Louisiana Fact Book, 2007 Edition
<http://www.cabl.org/pdfs/2007_FactBook.pdf> (2/07) Council for a Better
Louisiana

2006 Louisiana Health and Population Survey
<http://popest.org/popestla2006/> Louisiana Public Health Institute

TWO-YEAR RETROSPECTIVES

LA given less than its fair share, report says
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1190269257169640.xml&c
oll=1> (9/20/07) Times-Picayune

Outsiders still lack clear New Orleans recovery picture
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/print.cfm?recid=12782> (9/13/07)
CityBusiness

Progress and Pain
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1188194256220370.xml&c
oll=1> (8/27/07) Times-Picayune

More Than Memories
<http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1188024487183440.xml&c
oll=1> (8/25/07) Times-Picayune

New Orleans Index A Review of Key Indicators of Recovery Two Years After
Katrina <http://www.gnocdc.org/NOLAIndex/ESNOLAIndexAug07.pdf> (8/31/07)
Brookings Institute/Greater New Orleans Community Data Center

Blueprint for Gulf Renewal
<http://www.southernstudies.org/BlueprintShort.pdf> (8/31/07) Institute for
Southern Studies/ Southern Exposure

Power to the Neighborhoods: The Devolution of Authority in Post-Katrina New
Orleans
<http://www.mercatus.org/repository/docLib/200708281_power_to_the_neighborho
ods.pdf> (8/07) Mercatus Center, George Mason University

Giving in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes- Update on the
Foundation and Corporate Response
<http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/pdf/katrina_report_2007.
pdf> (8/07) Foundation Center

Useful local media websites for current news and information:

* Times-Picayune/Nola.com <http://www.nola.com>
* New Orleans CityBusiness
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com>
* BayouBuzz.com <http://www.bayoubuzz.com>
* Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
<http://www.businessreport.com/>
* Baton Rouge Advocate <http://www.2theadvocate.com/>
* Shreveport Times <http://www.shreveporttimes.com/>
* New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com>
* Associated Press <http://www.ap.org>



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