Economic Development
Joe Jaeger, vexed by Topgolf proposal, pulls out of controversial Convention Center hotel project
By Gordon Russell
Source: The Advocate
April 27, 2019
New Orleans developer and hotelier Joe Jaeger announced Saturday that he is withdrawing from the team seeking to build...
How LaToya Cantrell used a power play against hospitality industry in tourism-dollars fight
By Tyler Bridges
Source: The Advocate
April 22, 2019
In a hardball move against the hospitality industry, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell took her fight for tourism tax...Is New Orleans getting its “fair share” of revenue from the tourism industry?
By Tommy Tucker
Source: WWL Radio
April 8, 2019
Hear WWL Radio’s Tommy Tucker talk with Amy Glovinsky, President/CEO BGR (Bureau of Governmental Research), about the City’s efforts...What’s fair use of New Orleans tourism dollars? Debate spills into public at expert forum
By Anthony McAuley
Source: The Advocate
April 3, 2019
The contentious debate over how to use New Orleans tourism tax dollars that has rumbled along largely behind closed...On New Orleans tourism, see expert quotes on ‘world class’ city, key goals, more at forum
By The Advocate
Source: The Advocate
April 3, 2019
An expert panel on tourism brought together a host of important industries and ideas Tuesday morning in downtown New...Fair Play, Fair Share, Part 1: New Orleans and the Lost Penny
By Michael David Raso
Source: Big Easy Magazine
March 25, 2019
It’s 2019, but looking at some of the city’s old and antiquated infrastructure, it doesn’t feel like it. We...New Orleans Convention Center leaders say $1.1 billion investment will pay off, but will it?
By Tyler Bridges
Source: The Advocate
March 23, 2019
Build it and they will come. That’s the rosy forecast by officials from the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention...Key to Cantrell’s 2019 legislative agenda? Tourism cash to rebuild New Orleans S&WB, more
By Jessica Williams
Source: The Advocate
March 17, 2019
Less than a month away from the start of the 2019 legislative session, Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s legislative agenda is...Working groups zeroing in on cash to meet Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s demands for S&WB help
By Tyler Bridges
Source: The Advocate
March 16, 2019
Two groups — one created by the mayor and the governor, the other consisting of tourism and business leaders working...Assessor: proposed hotel probably wouldn’t get tax exemption
By The Associated Press
Source: The Associated Press via WWL-TV
March 12, 2019
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Orleans Parish tax assessor says he’s told convention center officials that a $558 million...