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Hyatt Hotels Corp. said it is revamping and reopening its Hyatt Regency New Orleans in fall of 2011.
The operator said it will launch a multimillion redevelopment of the 1,193-room hotel located adjacent to the Louisiana Superdome.
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The New Orleans Aviation Board (NOAB) has approved the sale of $53.7 million in PFC bond financing to support an ongoing terminal modernization effort at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International. Construction of the Concourse D extension and interior and exterior improvements began this Spring and are expected to be completed in 2011...
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Drive down most major roads in New Orleans and you're likely to find barricades, backhoes and detour postings, all telltale signs of long-needed street improvements finally under way. A quick turn off those thoroughfares, however, and you're back on the crumbling residential streets that long have tested drivers' shocks, as well as their patience...
Map of New Orleans road projects.
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Atlantic Metrocast, Inc., a subsidiary of Atlantic Wood Industries of Savannah, Ga., has signed an agreement with the Port of New Orleans to lease seven acres at France Road, to build a pre-stressed concrete production facility - the first of its kind in Southeast Louisiana. The new venture marks a return home for Atlantic, which was originally founded in New Orleans in 1901...
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When Jerome and Grace Lomba arrived home one day in late February and checked their mail, they weren’t expecting to see a letter stating they had won $50,000 in the Home Makeover contest they entered while attending an Open House at DirectBuy of New Orleans. They had visited the club simply to satisfy their curiosity about DirectBuy’s unique concept, so when they read the letter telling them they had won and later listened to the voicemail left by Mike Seiler, co-owner of DirectBuy of New Orleans, they couldn’t believe their eyes or their ears.
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One Uptown neighborhood is getting a facelift and an economic boost as part of a push to breathe new life into Freret Street.Neighbors along Freret Street will be seeing less blight and more industry as the community pushes to rejuvenate a major business corridor.
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Chile's new president is looking to New Orleans and its recovery after Hurricane Katrina for lessons to help him lead the South American nation's own comeback from a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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Three hundred of ITT Corporation’s top global leaders rolled up their sleeves to volunteer in New Orleans. On February 11, 2010, ITT employees partnered with two local organizations — HandsOn New Orleans and Bayou Rebirth —to assist in the city’s ongoing recovery efforts after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina through school revitalization and wetland restoration projects...
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Hurricane Katrina "the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans" because it forced the community to take steps to improve low-performing public schools, according to excerpts from a television interview made public Friday.
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A federal arbitration panel awarded Louisiana $475 million Wednesday for hurricane-related damage to Charity HospitalThe $475 million brings the state more than halfway to the financing it needs for building a new hospital on a lower Mid-City tract bordered by South Claiborne Avenue, Canal Street, Galvez Street and Tulane Avenue.
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