New Orleans' Lake Area Neighborhood Takes Charge of Recovery
New Orleans City Business › September 20, 2006
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Editor's note: The CityBusiness tour of the New Orleans neighborhoods we know and love arrives in the Lake Area in the occasional series titled "Faubourg Rebirth." Faubourg, to the uninitiated, means neighborhood. The series will outline recovery progress in our neighborhoods and inventory the challenges of living there today.
When Hurricane Katrina's storm surge ripped open a 700-foot breach in the 17th Street Canal's east floodwall, seven Lake Area neighborhoods were hit hardest.See the full content of this document
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New Orleans' Lake Area Neighborhood Takes Charge of Recovery
More than a year after that fateful day Aug. 30, 2005, returning residents have united to put Lake Area's neighborhoods back together. They could become the first community within the city to submit a master rebuilding plan.
Connie Uddo said she and her Lakeview neighbors tired of...See the full content of this document
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