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Monday, September 25, 2006
Saints return to the Superdome
Marketplace: "The New Orleans Saints today return to the Superdome for the first time since Katrina — and they'll be bringing much-needed leisure spending along with them. Rachel Dornhelm reports."
4 comments:
Anonymous
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It is great to hear that football is bring back New Orleans. Some cities base thier identity of the city on the sports teams. Look at the hubbub when the Browns wanted to leave Cleveland. What would Cleveland be without the Browns? With the rebuliding of New Orleans, football is a great place to start. Playing in the Superdome is also very special. A year ago, that stadium was a place of pain and suffering, and now it is a place of rebuliding. Good job Saints!!!!!! (ok... so you beat my team... I'll forgive you. Cough cough Go Browns!)
im so glad that new orleans is rebuilding itself. it is such a unique city and to let it disappear would of been such a lose. soon on one will be able to tell there was a hurricane there.
I wouldn't say soon from what I saw driving though the city last August, but the city is getting there. The re-opening of the Superdome is especially nice considering it is arguably the most talked about building during post hurricane relief and it was left with a not so positive lining. -Serrano
I agree that reopening the superdome is a great way to get substantial revenue into a city that desparately needs it. It's also a nice sentimental note to reflect on everyone who took sanctuary from the hurricane damange in the stadium. However, the assumption that the revenue will help restore New Orleans to what it was is unfortunate. A large portion of New Orleans got its character from the low-income residents. Their culture was integral to the city. In the rebuilding process, a HUGE percentage of low-income residencies are not being rebuilt and those who lived there are practilly prevented to returning to their home city for lack of affordability. So yes, the football tourism income will be great, but the culture is being prevented from returning to the status quo established prior to Katrina. - Maddie Regan
4 comments:
It is great to hear that football is bring back New Orleans. Some cities base thier identity of the city on the sports teams. Look at the hubbub when the Browns wanted to leave Cleveland. What would Cleveland be without the Browns? With the rebuliding of New Orleans, football is a great place to start. Playing in the Superdome is also very special. A year ago, that stadium was a place of pain and suffering, and now it is a place of rebuliding. Good job Saints!!!!!! (ok... so you beat my team... I'll forgive you. Cough cough Go Browns!)
- Julie
im so glad that new orleans is rebuilding itself. it is such a unique city and to let it disappear would of been such a lose. soon on one will be able to tell there was a hurricane there.
I wouldn't say soon from what I saw driving though the city last August, but the city is getting there. The re-opening of the Superdome is especially nice considering it is arguably the most talked about building during post hurricane relief and it was left with a not so positive lining.
-Serrano
I agree that reopening the superdome is a great way to get substantial revenue into a city that desparately needs it. It's also a nice sentimental note to reflect on everyone who took sanctuary from the hurricane damange in the stadium. However, the assumption that the revenue will help restore New Orleans to what it was is unfortunate. A large portion of New Orleans got its character from the low-income residents. Their culture was integral to the city. In the rebuilding process, a HUGE percentage of low-income residencies are not being rebuilt and those who lived there are practilly prevented to returning to their home city for lack of affordability. So yes, the football tourism income will be great, but the culture is being prevented from returning to the status quo established prior to Katrina. - Maddie Regan
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