Do you think New Orleans CAN become a larger city than it is now? (park, year)

[Metairie]

Originally Posted by Neworleansisprettygood

The city had 620,000 people before the East really got developed(372k now). There's plenty of room to add population within the city limits...converting abandoned housing to liveable quarters doesn't take up any new space.

Its not very safe and there aren't many investors running to build new great housing or business districts over there like say Elmwood. I have a friend that owns several restaurants (part of a huge chain out here) and they have all their "business" locations in Metairie and travel from living in Slidell. They choose not to open in the east and slidell due to crime. Fact checking was done, I own a business and wanted to expand. I don't hate NOLA, merely stating my opinion of the chances.

[sconley9922]

Statistically, crime is not bad in new orleans east...when you hear about most of the murders and other crimes, its either downtown or uptown

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by Metairie

I'm not sure we are anymore resilient than other cities that have overcome disasters, but it sounds good. LA received at least 51 billion in Katrina aid according to NY times in 2009. Thats a ton of money with very little improvement to show for it. Where did it all go ? Lakeview still has boarded up homes and so do other parts and streets are crap, etc...? NO is also built to the edges of the land with no more room to expand or build. Businesses can't find land to build on without going far out like Houma and Gonzales, so growth will be hard. I don't see it personally, although its a nice city for a certain way of life. The big easy.

Why don't you find out where the money went? Most of it should be public.
Houma and Gonzales??? I'm confused, those aren't even in the CSA!
New Orleans actually has plenty of land to build on, Orleans could hold double the population without any "Manhattanization" needed whatsoever.

Why would you expect disaster money to fix roads? That would cost 51 billion alone.

[Neworleansisprettygood]

Originally Posted by Metairie

Its not very safe and there aren't many investors running to build new great housing or business districts over there like say Elmwood. I have a friend that owns several restaurants (part of a huge chain out here) and they have all their "business" locations in Metairie and travel from living in Slidell. They choose not to open in the east and slidell due to crime. Fact checking was done, I own a business and wanted to expand. I don't hate NOLA, merely stating my opinion of the chances.

Missed the point of my post.

[Phil75230]

I say let New Orleans (and possibly the older parts of Metarie and other parts of Jefferson too) grow by growing denser.

Anything requiring 'sprawlburbs', send to Northshore. It's far enough from the city itself so as not to seriously impact on the latter's character (although if Metro NOLA gets "that" big you'd probably need to double the size of the causeway.

[sconley9922]

Originally Posted by Phil75230

I say let New Orleans (and possibly the older parts of Metarie and other parts of Jefferson too) grow by growing denser.

Anything requiring 'sprawlburbs', send to Northshore. It's far enough from the city itself so as not to seriously impact on the latter's character (although if Metro NOLA gets "that" big you'd probably need to double the size of the causeway.

The causeway is outdated, it should've been redone

[Neworleansisprettygood]

Originally Posted by sconley9922

The causeway is outdated, it should've been redone

I went for a degree in civil engineering, never completed it, but I think just expanding to three lanes on both sides with an actual shoulder would significantly raise the capacity.

[sconley9922]

Originally Posted by Neworleansisprettygood

I went for a degree in civil engineering, never completed it, but I think just expanding to three lanes on both sides with an actual shoulder would significantly raise the capacity.

And some taller guardrails, because a few people went over the top of em into the water....albeit driver error tho (some drunk, some prolly texting)

[NativeSon504]

Originally Posted by sconley9922

The causeway is outdated, it should've been redone

Didn't they redo the causeway after Katrina destroyed it?

[Kingofadam]

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