re: Mark Hughes, owner of the Cannery in NOLA had a private meeting with Latoya Cantrell

Also, Detroit was bigger than Nola at their apexes, right? I mean like the 60s/70s. And both have had declines since, right?

So this would be like Detroit, today, having another major decline.

I'm being serious, not being a hater.

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I'm being serious, not being a hater.

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I know.

It was an awful apples/oranges comparison for any number of reasons.

HKIC
Head Karen In Charge

Oh this thread is going to be fun to read when I get home tonight

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Nola people voted her in. They deserve it

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I don’t live there, so I’m wasn’t close to what was going on during mayoral elections. That said...was there no better candidate? I feel like any average Joe can run for the next election and defeat Latoya so long as he/she gets on the same page as these business owners.

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I think so. He created the polarizing environment that divided the city in his attempts to get national recognition for future nation offices. He created the divide between business owners and service workers. Before his ill-fated endeavors, everyone was working together to make the city better. Now the service workers see DesTroya as beholden to business interest & business owners see her as beholden to SJW interests. The reality is she's an idiot, but neither side can agree & come together anymore. All this renaming everything is driving even more division into the community when school & street names have no impact on quality of life like crime, education, S&WB, street repair, etc. do. But the TP will just keep running articles about Nola's racial reckoning on slow news days, with some classic lines like "Jim Crow Era" this or "White supremacy that," while moving the three articles about new murders to the bottom of the headlines section so as to refrain from overemphasizing prejudices. ETA: Without those divisions, business owners may be more willing to make sacrifices to help out workers and may be more willing to work with the government to come up with solutions. DesTroya sees it as though she needs to keep everything shut down to protect a marginalized & vulnerable community in the midst of a racist virus. Also moving from Orleans to
Old Metairie currently.

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This is all a load of horse crap. Mitch sucked, no doubt about it, but him pandering to the carpet bagging take em down Nola bunch (not natives) did not create more racial division between every day New Orleanians. There was no added tensions between industry workers and business owners. New Orleans still has some of the most intertwined and respectful racial relations as anywhere else in the country.

Toya is worse by a country mile. Mitch had his sights elsewhere and ignored nola’s problems. Toya is making up new problems left and right

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That's what I don't get.

If Nola business dies, the JP dies. That's the nature of suburbs.

Every time I see this discussion I'm confused at how people advocating for JP and admitting OP is dying think this will work long term.

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JP however does have a lot of office space and room to build more high rises. With a more favorable business climate, and still being close enough to the ports and refinery industries. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that Nola can exist as a tourist destination while the white collar workforce moves 8 miles.

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You're kidding yourself if you think JP's got a population or potential economy that can sustain a major metro. Hell, more of it overall has been on a downswing than upswing in recent years, regardless of what's happening in Orleans.

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umm why don’t you check Jefferson’s population vs orleans’ population. While you are there check education levels, average income, etc.

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All liberal governors & mayors are being told by the Dem overlords to do everything they can to keep their states & cities SHUT DOWN until the election in hopes to hurt Trump.

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Look no further than Nashville hiding low COVID positive case numbers documented from bars and restaurants to keep them shut down.

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If Nola can "survive" then sure.

The undercurrent of this thread is that Nola won't survive in any way close to it's 2010-2020 run. Residents moving to JP while businesses in OP die isn't sustainable.

Also, re: high prices referenced earlier, you're paying a markup after a bubble (or, at least a markup on top of an inflated price point of pre-covid Nola). That makes NO sense.

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Even with NOLA’s solid decade, it wasn’t built on the back of mid to large sized businesses. Nola itself can survive in tourism alone if you can get business into the surrounding area. Of course, the state would have to become more pro businesses in order for anything to happen. Plenty of space between the westbank (think near TPC), or the stretch from Laplace to Gonzales, or the I-12 corridor, that we could try to woo manufacturing. Think of how different things would be if we had just managed to be a player in the car factories that Alabama has been able to pull.
Unfortunately it would take a fundamental change in the way our government does things, just need someone to blow it all up