re: The Odeon, tallest building constructed in NOLA in 3 decades, to open next month

Austin is a good comparator to Nola if you are looking at mid-major markets. It truly is a tale of two cities if you look at population and economic movement in the last quarter century. It’s as if one city has become a magnet and the other, a repellant. I too wish that Nola recognizes what it needs to do to attract the right kind of business and gets its act together.