The Future of New Orleans...

[Shuckins]

Luxury condos and casinos as far as the eye can see...but not a slum to be found anywhere.

A few projects, maybe...however, the vast majority of the poor will never be able to return to New Orleans because of skyrocketing real estate market.

New Orleans will become the Las Vegas of the South.

[Toad]

Only if the Feds pick up the tab for the rebuild.

Just say no.

If somebody wants to privately develop that and maintain the levees and pumps... go for it.

Otherwise, just build Nouveau Orleans in a better place on higher ground.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Thrawn
Until the next hurricane comes...then it's wash repeat...to the tune of hundreds of billion of dollars.

If the individual person or corporation is so hot to rebuild New Orleans let them.  It's immoral to steal from people that don't want to in order to rebuild.

that is exactly why I said North American venice
 Screw the levies
dont try to defeat mother nature. Embrace it.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Shuckins
Luxury condos and casinos as far as the eye can see...but not a slum to be found anywhere.

A few projects, maybe...however, the vast majority of the poor will never be able to return to New Orleans because of skyrocketing real estate market.

New Orleans will become the Las Vegas of the South.

I don't think the real estate will skyrocket if they can't protect it.  Pretty hard to build a casino without insurance.

[GRUNHERZ]

I'm actually fascinated by the long term social implications of this.

 New Orleans was nearly an all black city since so many whites moved out to other cities of LA in recent decades and now they are being reunited en masse...

I wonder how it will all work out.