U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Task Force Hope Status Report Newsletter: See more…http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/hps2/pdf/July_31_09.pdf

New York Times features New Orleans Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurs Leverage New Orleans’s Charm to Lure Small Businesses. See more…. New York Times website

Blight: The Business Council, in collaboration with the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority and the Mayor’s Office of Recovery Development Administration, is actively pursing strategies to significantly reduce the inventory of blighted structures in the city as well as to emphasize blight reduction as a central theme of the Master Plan.