NEW ORLEANS — Judging by the current empty lots, it’s hard to imagine the Lower 9th Ward before Hurricane Katrina — a bustling neighborhood where African-American residents knew their neighbors, built their homes with their own hands and shopped at black-owned stores along St. Claude Avenue. Katrina largely put an end to all that, nearly [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans City Council has passed what it called “compromise” legislation to begin regulating the short-term rental industry already operating in the city. Multiple media outlets report Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration drafted rules to regulate short-term rentals and negotiated with AirBnB, one of the major short-term rental companies in the [...]
NEW ORLEANS — It’s the middle of a recent work day inside a Hollywood-style movie studio in downtown New Orleans, and Trey Burvant turns off the lights on an empty Stage 1. He heads over to stages 2 and 3, and they’re empty, too. “Not much going on,” Burvant says inside Second Line Stages studio. [...]