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re: What happened to New Orleans East?
Posted on 8/20/19 at 6:58 pm to arseinclarse
Posted on 8/20/19 at 6:58 pm to arseinclarse
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Posted on 8/20/19 at 7:01 pm to LSUneaux
I gave the 8th grade graduation speech two years ago. Crazy some of the teachers are still there.
I’m sure I know you or your fam.
I’m sure I know you or your fam.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 7:07 pm to glassman
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Oil crash
Stopped the growth. Which brought
quote:
Section 8
And started the downfall, and then
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Katrina
Killed it.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 7:49 pm to Geauxld Finger
Grew up there off of Hayne close to castnet seafood. It was definitely middle class white and black but nothing but good people in my neighborhood. But yes, Katrina finally killed what good remained of it.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 7:51 pm to Ba Ba Boooey
I lived on Lehigh. I probably pissed in your backyard.
This post was edited on 8/20/19 at 7:52 pm
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:02 pm to LSUFanHouston
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LSUFanHouston
Appreciate your opinion. I'm going to offer some pushback (mostly as an outsider) so hoping you and the others familiar with it will weigh-in.
What piqued my interest was your comparison to Katy/Woodlands since I now live in Katy (lived in Slidell for a while). Since there's a paucity of land around NO, I too thought that NO East should be like those.
I'm not that acquainted with NO East or its history but I did see if before Katrina and just recently. Doesn't look that different to my eyes.
My understanding is that Disney originally wanted to come there rather than central FL but don't know how factual that is.
So here's some questions:
1) Challenger happened in 1/86. I don't know what the work force #'s were before then, but NASA was already gearing back up in less than a year. That shouldn't have been that much of a setback.
2) The O&G downturn in '82 is legendary over here. O&G took a nose dive around '14-'15. Not as severe but oil did drop from over $100/barrel to below $40/barrel. Yet, you would have to look really hard to see its effects on Katy and Fort Bend Co. There's still tons of construction going on to the west.
I guess I'm just saying there's has to be more things at work than just Challenger and an O&G down turn.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:08 pm to LSUFanHouston
She can't get the needle soon enough.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:13 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
I think right after they built all those apartments off Bullard the oil company offices left the New Orleans area. This probably did not help the area.
Pre Katrina I visited friends and one them had a nice house in New Orleans . It looked like a normal middle class area with a few older low income neighborhoods mixed in. I was actually thinking about buying s house in that area. I guess I am now glad I did not purchase a house out there it seem to have changed a lot.
Now some area look worse than war zones especially in the Chef Menteur Hwy area near Michoud area.
Pre Katrina I visited friends and one them had a nice house in New Orleans . It looked like a normal middle class area with a few older low income neighborhoods mixed in. I was actually thinking about buying s house in that area. I guess I am now glad I did not purchase a house out there it seem to have changed a lot.
Now some area look worse than war zones especially in the Chef Menteur Hwy area near Michoud area.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:43 pm to AlwysATgr
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I'm not that acquainted with NO East or its history but I did see if before Katrina and just recently. Doesn't look that different to my eyes.
It went downhill throughout the 90s. If you were passing down I-10, looked really, really bad leading up to Katrina, no doubt. There were some pockets that were holding on for dear life, but they were few and far between.
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ot as severe but oil did drop from over $100/barrel to below $40/barrel. Yet, you would have to look really hard to see its effects on Katy and Fort Bend Co. There's still tons of construction going on to the west.
Houston Metro diversified their economy a whole lot between the 80s and 14-15. That helped a bunch.
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I guess I'm just saying there's has to be more things at work than just Challenger and an O&G down turn
O&G were starting to move west before the oil bust, no doubt, but that accelerated it. The big issue is, once those people lost their homes, there was absolutely no "good people" to replace them with. That whole area turned, and fast.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:46 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
This is actually a pretty good read that offers some interesting historical background.
Suburban Swamp: The Rise and Fall of Planned New-Town Communities in New Orleans East
Suburban Swamp: The Rise and Fall of Planned New-Town Communities in New Orleans East
Posted on 8/21/19 at 7:28 am to VOR
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I’m pretty sure I know your explanation, CT
What is yours?
Posted on 8/21/19 at 7:43 am to NorthshoreTiger76
by the mid 80s the bekka valley in lebanon was safer.. that's what happened.
and massive blocks of section 8
and massive blocks of section 8
Posted on 8/21/19 at 7:44 am to arseinclarse
quote:live on dinkins till I was 5
I lived on Lehigh. I probably pissed in your backyard.
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